 | David P. Currie - 1994 - 682 páginas
...private race discrimination)). See also United States v. Cruikshank. 92 US 542. 555 (1876) (dictum) ("The only obligation resting upon the United States...see that the States do not deny the right. . . . The power of the national government is limited to the enforcement of this guaranty."). 92See 384 US at... | |
 | Susan Gillman, Forrest G. Robinson - 1990 - 282 páginas
...language of Justice Morrison Waite's opinion for the majority in United States v. Cruikshank (1876), "The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right [of one citizen against another under the Constitution]. . . . The power of the National Government... | |
 | Blanca Rodríguez Ruiz - 1997 - 410 páginas
...on the states and were under the ultimate control of the federal power. As the Supreme Court put it, "[t]he equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...States is to see that the States do not deny the right" (US v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542, 544 (1875) - quotation from J. Silard, "A Constitutional Forecast ...",... | |
 | Frederick M. Lawrence - 2009 - 287 páginas
...safeguard individuals from state encroachment. The duty to protect the individual rights of all citizens "was originally assumed by the States; and it still...see that the States do not deny the right . . . The power of the national government is limited to the enforcement of this guarantee."83 Nowhere did Chief... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - 1998 - 772 páginas
...the enjoyment of this privilege if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the state, and it still remains there. The only obligation resting...States is to see that the states do not deny the right. This the amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 464 páginas
...its citizens in the enjoyment of an equality of rights was originally assumed by the States, and it remains there. The only obligation resting upon the...States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the amendment guarantees, and no more. The power of the national government is limited to this... | |
 | Theodore L. Johnson - 2002 - 600 páginas
...the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but...States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the Amendment guaranties, but no more. The power of the National Government is limited to the... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 988 páginas
...does not, any more than the one which precedes it, and which we have just considered, add any thing sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,...of the races— the life that has exhibited itself, This the amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the... | |
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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, and... 
