 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - 1877 - 1208 páginas
...i» impossible to misconstrue or misunderstand it. The chief-justice in Cruikshank's case declared : Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the en joyment of this principle if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 768 páginas
...555, per WAITE, CJ, used the following language, in discussing the foregoing constitutional clause : " The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the States, and it still remains there." — Ward v. Flood, 48 California, 36. The Circuit Court erred in taxing an attorney's fee against the... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 páginas
...provision does not add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...That duty was originally assumed by the States, and still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1878 - 914 páginas
...provision does not add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle it within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 840 páginas
...that the Dissenting Opinion. rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man, and that " the equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism." And in Ex parte Virginia, 100 US 334, the emphatic language of this court is that " one great purpose... | |
 | 1888 - 892 páginas
..."prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of tins principle, if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by tin- States, and it still... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 748 páginas
...not make him a slave, nor is it servitude in any sense that can be properly attached to the term.2 is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its powev. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The only obligation... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 744 páginas
...considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government In these instances the restraint was laid, not on the community, but on the States or the General Government... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1893 - 792 páginas
...considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution as against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the States, and it still remains there." From this it would seem that this phrase in the amendment added but little to what had theretofore... | |
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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 ;... 
