 | Werner Sollors - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 566 pages
...and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, declares that they shall be subject "to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 464 pages
...right to buy, sell, and own property; the right to sue and to give evidence in court; and the right to "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and estate." Id. at 178. In anticipation of the emancipation of millions of slaves, the preceding Congress... | |
 | Bruce Ackerman - History - 1991 - 530 pages
...citizens of the United States and granting them federal rights to the "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." 18 If the President accepted these limited, but fundamental, statutory efforts to redeem the promise... | |
 | John Fobanjong - Affirmative action programs - 2001 - 212 pages
...veto of President Andrew Johnson, the act declared that all citizens "shall have the same right ... to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." The act made it a federal crime to interfere, "under color of any law," with anyone's exercise of civil... | |
 | James W. Clarke - Law - 362 pages
...servitude." It also provided them with all rights of citizenship, including "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." Having no confidence in the willingness of state and local authorities to abide by the law, Congress... | |
 | Michael A. Sommers - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 148 pages
...citizens. As such, these citizens "of every race and color" could enjoy the "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." The federal government had recognized that, in terms of black Americans, such rights — including... | |
 | T. Alexander Aleinikoff - Law - 2002 - 332 pages
...42 USC §1981(a) (1994)) ("[A]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security... | |
 | Annette Gordon-Reed - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...Thirteenth Amendment did not clarify what rights blacks and people of color would have after slavery. ties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell,...and convey real and personal property, and to full equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property."s The continuing... | |
 | Najia Aarim-Heriot - History - 2003 - 318 pages
...fundamental rigbts—namely, the natural rights to life, liberty, and property and the right "to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...proceedings for the security of person and property." These rights did not, however, involve political or voting rights.4 The objection of Senator Peter... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 2003 - 530 pages
...include ; it has there declared that they include the right ' to make and enforce contracts, to sue, he parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease,...proceedings for the security of person and property.' That act, it is true, was passed before the fourteenth amendment, but the amendment was adopted, as... | |
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States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State... 
