 | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall - 2007 - 430 páginas
...Court found that the duty of protecting citizens rests with states and not the federal government. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the states do not deny these rights of protection.36 Without state action or nonaction, the protections under the Enforcement... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1921 - 32 páginas
...rights was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. Will you please note this : The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. My conclusion is this: Must the Congress of this country sit supinely by when it knows that a State,... | |
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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... 
