To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching: Hearing ... on S. 1211926 - 44 páginas |
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... legislation enacted in pursuance of a political power and not in the mere exercise of a police power . Under the fourteenth amendment the failure or inability of a State to assure every citizen the equal protection of the law and due ...
... legislation enacted in pursuance of a political power and not in the mere exercise of a police power . Under the fourteenth amendment the failure or inability of a State to assure every citizen the equal protection of the law and due ...
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... legislation ; and 3. The constitutionality of such a measure . Fortunately the facts are well known . For 40 years they have been widely and regularly published in the press of the country . Certain persons have made a systematic study ...
... legislation ; and 3. The constitutionality of such a measure . Fortunately the facts are well known . For 40 years they have been widely and regularly published in the press of the country . Certain persons have made a systematic study ...
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... legislation is unani- mously admitted at least , a need for stamping out lynching in the United States . There is first to be considered protection of lives of American citizens . I do not see how a nation can arrive at the point of ...
... legislation is unani- mously admitted at least , a need for stamping out lynching in the United States . There is first to be considered protection of lives of American citizens . I do not see how a nation can arrive at the point of ...
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... legislation , who in fact made a redraft of the bill we are considering , and who , so far as I know , has the constitutional points of this matter at his finger tips better than anybody else , was to have been here to - day , but he is ...
... legislation , who in fact made a redraft of the bill we are considering , and who , so far as I know , has the constitutional points of this matter at his finger tips better than anybody else , was to have been here to - day , but he is ...
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... legislation is that the Federal Government has no more warrant to step in to punish lynch- ing in the States than it has to prevent or punish any other form of murder or any other crime - arson , for example . I think it is safe to say ...
... legislation is that the Federal Government has no more warrant to step in to punish lynch- ing in the States than it has to prevent or punish any other form of murder or any other crime - arson , for example . I think it is safe to say ...
Términos y frases comunes
accused Advancement of Colored Alabama ALLEGED OFFENSES Arkansas Assault on white Attack on white Baker County Beaten to death body burned burned after death charged citizens committee Congress Constitution constitutionality County court crime of lynching Date Place Manner enforce equal protection fact fourteenth amendment Georgia guaranteed Hanged and shot Insulting white Jim Roland JOHNSON July July 29 June June 15 jurisdiction jury killed Leon County Louisiana Lynching record man_ Manner of lynching ment Milledgeville Miss Mississippi Missouri mob or riotous murder Name Date Place National Association negro OFFICERS AND JAILS Oklahoma Palm Beach Island persons lynched Place Manner provision punish Rachel Moore Rankin County rape riotous assemblage Rocky Ford Senator GILLETT Senator KING presiding Sept sheriff Sidney Towns Smith South Carolina_ statement TAKEN FROM PEACE Texas Total Tylertown United unknown__ victims white woman William Willie Dixon women
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Página 29 - A State acts by its legislative, its executive, or its judicial authorities. It can act in no other way. The constitutional provision, therefore, must mean that no agency of the State, or of the officers or agents by whom its powers are exerted, shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Página 26 - The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States ; and it still remains there.
Página 29 - Whatever legislation is appropriate, that is, adapted to carry out the objects the amendments have in view, whatever tends to enforce submission to the prohibitions they contain, and to secure to all persons the enjoyment of perfect equality of civil rights and the equal protection of the laws against state denial or invasion, if not prohibited, is brought within the domain of congressional power.
Página 28 - Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal Opinion of the Court. hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Página 29 - That no citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States, or of any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ; and any officer or other person charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors...
Página 28 - ... an administration directed so exclusively against a particular class of persons as to warrant and require the conclusion that, whatever may have been the intent of the ordinances as adopted, they are applied by the public authorities charged with their administration, and thus representing the state herself, with a mind so unequal and oppressive as to amount to a practical denial by the state of that equal protection of the laws...
Página 29 - State is a denial of the equal protection of the laws, within the meaning of the amendment.
Página 26 - US 214, where the court said that "rights and immunities created by and dependent upon the Constitution of the United States can be protected by Congress. The form and manner of the protection may be such as Congress, in the legitimate exercise of its discretion, shall provide. These may be varied to meet the necessities of the particular right to be protected.
Página 29 - ... constitutional inhibition; and as he acts in the name and for the State, and is clothed with the State's power, his act is that of the State. This must be so, or the constitutional prohibition has no meaning.
Página 28 - The fact of this discrimination is admitted. No reason for it is shown, and the conclusion cannot be resisted, that no reason for it exists except hostility to the race and nationality to which the petitioners belong, and which in the eye of the law is not justified.