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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 judicial, when these are subversive... "
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History - Page 115
by Alexander Tsesis - 2004 - 229 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 334

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1948 - 990 pages
...Fourteenth Amendment to action of state "Among the phrases appearing in the opinion are the following: "the operation of State laws, and the action of State officers executive or judicial"; "State laws and State proceedings"; "State law . . . or some State action through its officers or agents"...
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The American Law Register, Volume 22

Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...against state legislation, or state action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to O create a code of municipal law for the regulation...rights and privileges are undoubtedly secured by the XlVth Amendment; but they are secured by way of prohibition against state laws and state proceedings...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 3

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...but to provide modes of relief against state legislation, or state action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize congress to create a code of...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...
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The Ohio Law Journal, Volume 4

Law - 1884 - 1022 pages
...but to provide modes of relief against state legislation, or state action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to create a code of...judicial, when these are subversive of the fundamental right specified in the amendment. Positive rights and privileges are undoubtedly secured by the fourteenth...
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 900 pages
...but to provide modes of relief against State legislation, or State action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to create a code of...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...
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The New Englander, Volume 7

Criticism - 1884 - 926 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 :...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 43

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1884 - 952 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: "...
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Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 836 pages
...regulation of private rights generally. This is the appropriate function of the States. It can only provide modes of redress against the operation of State laws and the action of State officers when these are subversive of the fundamental rights specified in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution....
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Commentaries on Law, Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the ...

Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...but to provide modes of relief against state legislation, or state action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize congress to create a code of municipal law 1 That this is a condition of all effective legislation, see supra, § 27. negro race, taking it by...
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An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States

Henry Flanders - 1885 - 336 pages
...of no violation of its provisions, the amendment imposes no duty and confers no power en Congress. It does not authorize Congress to create a code of...municipal law for the regulation of private rights, * It is the right of the state courts to decide finally whether any inch exclusive privileges are forbidden...
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