 | Gerald James Larson - 2001 - 384 էջ
...that The Court's initial view of the Fourteenth Amendment was that its "one pervading purpose" was the "freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppression of those who had formerly exercised dominion over him."4 This one pervading purpose, however,... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 էջ
...found in them all, lying as the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have been suggested; we mean the freedom of the slave race,...establishment of that freedom and the protection of the newly made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 էջ
...that the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment was to deal with post-Civil War problems, above all "... the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen...had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him" (Slaughterhouse Cases). The language is broader (ie, does not specifically refer to blacks) because... | |
 | Jed Rubenfeld - 2008 - 269 էջ
...that amendment's foundational paradigm case. The Court saw in the Amendment "one pervading purpose": "the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen...who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over them." The Court offered a partial catalogue of those "oppressions": [Blacks] were [forbidden] to appear... | |
 | Bruce A. Ackerman - 2001 - 269 էջ
...default. As the Court's opinion today reminds us, the central purpose of the Civil War Amendments was "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...establishment of that freedom and the protection of the newly made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion... | |
 | Thurgood Marshall - 2003 - 376 էջ
...Slaughterhouse Cases,6 decided in 1873, the Court echoed the framers and read the amendment as a declaration of "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him."7 So sure was the Court of the great purposes for which the amendment spoke to any problem but... | |
 | Michael A. Ross - 2003 - 356 էջ
...can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose" of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. "[W]e mean the freedom of the slave race, the security...had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him." The Fourteenth Amendment was not designed, Miller felt, to thwart a valuable health measure that removed... | |
 | Joseph Francis Menez, John R. Vile - 2004 - 660 էջ
...War amendments (the Thirteenth through Fifteenth) disclosed a unity of purpose: the achievement of the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the new freedmen and citizens from oppression by their former owners. The Court held that the rights of... | |
 | Gretchen Ritter - 2006 - 400 էջ
...different purpose in these amendments, emphasizing "the one pervading purpose found in them all, ... we mean the freedom of the slave race, the security...had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him" (83 US 71). While the Fourteenth Amendment defined national citizenship and protected the privileges... | |
 | David Cooper - 2006 - 270 էջ
...can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have...mean the freedom of the slave race, the security and establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly made freeman and citizen." Justice Miller... | |
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... the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation of each, and without which none of them would have been even suggested; we mean the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection... 
