 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...  The Southeastern Reporter - Page 701901Full view - About this book
 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1877 - 1208 pages
...i» impossible to misconstrue or misunderstand it. The chief-justice in Cruikshank's case declared : Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the en joyment of this principle if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 768 pages
...circumstances." The same court, in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US (2 Otto), 542, 555, per WAITE, CJ, used the following language, in discussing the foregoing...and it still remains there." — Ward v. Flood, 48 California, 36. The Circuit Court erred in taxing an attorney's fee against the appellant ; and its... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...considered, add any thing to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the States ; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right.... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...provision does not add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...That duty was originally assumed by the States, and still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1878 - 914 pages
...provision does not add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle it within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...that the Dissenting Opinion. rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man, and that " the equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism." And in Ex parte Virginia, 100 US 334, the emphatic language of this court is that " one great purpose... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the states; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the states do not deny the right.... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett - Constitutional law - 1886 - 764 pages
...considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle...assumed by the states ; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the states do not deny the right.... | |
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