Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 42, S. 1352, and S. 1465, Bills to Assure to Persons Within the Jurisdiction of Every State Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws, and to Prevent the Crime of Lynching, and for Other Purposes, January 19, 20, 21, February 2, 18, and 20, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 198 էջ |
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action American American Jewish Congress antilynching bill antilynching legislation ARENT Attorney authority BARRY Chairman charged citizens civil rights clause color committed condone Congress Congressional Constitution convicted crime of lynching criminal custody denied deprive diligent efforts district due process duty Eleventh Amendment enact enforce equal protection failed Federal antilynching Federal courts Federal Government fourteenth amendment FRAENKEL guarantees guilty Homer Ferguson indicted injury jail January 21 judgment Judiciary jurisdiction jury justice liability liberty lynch mob lynchers lynching occurs ment mob violence murder NAACP national origin Negro offense officer or employee person or persons prevent prisoner process of law prosecuted provisions punish question race record refused Representative KEATING Senator EASTLAND Senator FERGUSON Senator HAWKES Senator MAYBANK Senator MORSE Senator REVERCOMB Senator STENNIS sheriff statement statute Supreme Court tion treaty trial United Nations Charter United States Senate victims violation Wagner-Morse bill WAYNE MORSE
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Էջ 177 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Էջ 184 - 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, aud 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.
Էջ 181 - State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases, or whenever any such insurrection, violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the laws of the United States...
Էջ 46 - It is obvious that there may be matters of the sharpest exigency for the national well being that an act of Congress could not deal with but that a treaty followed by such an act could, and it is not lightly to be assumed that, in matters requiring national action, ' ' a power which must belong to and somewhere reside in every civilized government,
Էջ 160 - All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55.
Էջ 7 - Any officer or employee of the commission who shall make public any information obtained by the commission without its authority, unless directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Էջ 178 - And so in the present case, until some state law has been passed, or some state action through its officers or agents has been taken, adverse to the rights of citizens sought to be protected by the fourteenth amendment, no legislation of the United States under said amendment, nor any proceeding under such legislation, can be called into activity, for the prohibitions of the amendment are against state laws and acts done under state authority.
Էջ 65 - It does not authorize Congress to create a code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights; but to provide modes of redress against the operation of State laws, and the action of State officers, executive or judicial, when these are subversive of the fundamental rights specified In the amendment.
Էջ 66 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law, a law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Էջ 181 - The constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purposes of the people, in framing this great charter of our liberties, to provide for minute specifications of its powers, or to declare the means by which those powers should be carried into execution. It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages,...