 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...the equal protection of the laws, did not invest, and did not attempt to invest, Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of State legislation. As observed by Mr. Justice Bradley, delivering the opinion of the court in the ('/,-/; Ri9hts Cotes,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...power conferred upon congress, and this is the whole of it. It does not invest congress .with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain...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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...legislative power conferred upon Congress, and this u the whole of it. It does not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain...kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to O create a code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights, but to provide modes of redress... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 988 pages
...person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, did not invest Congress with power The court, interpreting the statute, said: "It gives or creates a right of a Re Rahrcr, 140 US 554, sub nom. Wilkerson v. Rahrer, 35 L. ed. 574, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 865. It is true... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 900 pages
...this Is the whole of it. It does not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which arc within the domain of State legislation ; but to provide...private rights ; but to provide modes of redress against tho operation of State laws, and the action of State officers, executive or judicial, when these are... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...power conferred upon congress, and tliis is the whole of it. It does not invest congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain...authorize congress to create a code of municipal law 1 That this is a condition of all effective legislation, see supra, ยง 27. negro race, taking it by... | |
 | Criticism - 1884 - 928 pages
...accompanying official opinion of the Court, says that the Fourteenth Amendment " authorizes Congress " " to provide modes of redress against the operation...the action of State officers, executive or judicial, where these are subversive of the fundamental rights specified in the amendments." Again he says :... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...power conferred upon Congress, and this is the whole of it. It does not invest Congress with power to"~] legislate upon subjects which are within the...legislation ; but to provide modes of relief against State legisla^ tion, or State action, of the Kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to create a... | |
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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 judical, when these are subversive... 
