Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volume 6Gilbert Book Company, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... colored man , was distributing to col- ored voters , many of whom could not read , tickets containing the names of democratic candi- dates , but purporting to be republican tickets - having republican devices thereon , such as pictures ...
... colored man , was distributing to col- ored voters , many of whom could not read , tickets containing the names of democratic candi- dates , but purporting to be republican tickets - having republican devices thereon , such as pictures ...
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... colored race . And whatever regulations con- gress may prescribe as to the manner of holding the election for representatives must be so framed as to leave the election of state officers free , otherwise they cannot be maintained . In ...
... colored race . And whatever regulations con- gress may prescribe as to the manner of holding the election for representatives must be so framed as to leave the election of state officers free , otherwise they cannot be maintained . In ...
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... colored men there offering to poll , of which class of voters there was a large number in that ward who could not read . The special deputy marshals were charged with assault and battery by the parties whom they had arrested , before ...
... colored men there offering to poll , of which class of voters there was a large number in that ward who could not read . The special deputy marshals were charged with assault and battery by the parties whom they had arrested , before ...
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... colored man . He was holding tickets headed by the devices of the republican ticket , with the names of the democratic candidates imprinted on them , and offering them to the colored voters as they approached the poll . Many of the ...
... colored man . He was holding tickets headed by the devices of the republican ticket , with the names of the democratic candidates imprinted on them , and offering them to the colored voters as they approached the poll . Many of the ...
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... colored people , who had been held not to be citizens of the United States , full rights of citizenship . Ibid . $ 735 . Congress may not only control state legislation abridging civil rights already enacted , but may pass laws in ...
... colored people , who had been held not to be citizens of the United States , full rights of citizenship . Ibid . $ 735 . Congress may not only control state legislation abridging civil rights already enacted , but may pass laws in ...
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Page 654 - Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, 6 L. ed. 23, 70, where he said: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 539 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 159 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 89 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 363 - We feel no hesitation in confining these expressions to those privileges and immunities which are, in their nature, fundamental; which belong, of right, to the citizens of all free governments; and which have, at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the several States which compose this Union, from the time of their becoming free, independent, and sovereign.
Page 612 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 539 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contra-distinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Page 454 - The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres. The former in its appropriate sphere is supreme; but the States within the limits of their powers not granted, or, in the language of the Tenth Amendment, "reserved," are as independent of the general government as that government within its sphere is independent of the States.
Page 349 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 447 - 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. Whoever, by virtue of public position under a state government, deprives another of property, life or liberty without due process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition; and as he acts in the name and for the state,...