| H.W. Brands - 2002 - 383 ˹éÒ
...and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation. If the civil and political rights of both races be...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Although Justice Brown spoke for the court, he didn't speak for all the justices. Associate Justice... | |
| Brook Thomas - 2002 - 424 ˹éÒ
...and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation. If the civil and political rights of both races be...United States cannot put them upon the same plane" (Plessy 51). Although implying that blacks are socially inferior, the Court is careful not to make... | |
| David Wright, David Zoby - 2002 - 360 ˹éÒ
...powerless to eradicate social instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane. — Justice Henry Brown, majority opinion, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 T JL he October gale that devastated... | |
| Francisco Valdes, Jerome Mccristal Culp, Angela Harris - 2002 - 466 ˹éÒ
...that the US Constitution "could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color"; that if "one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Racial caste defied radical egalitarianism; the racial order subsisted, as the Supreme Court put it,... | |
| T. Alexander Aleinikoff - 2002 - 332 ˹éÒ
...Negroes down in all other respects."61 The majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson had declared that "[i]f one race be inferior to the other socially,...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."62 There may be some sad truth to this remark, if one takes it to be about personal prejudice.... | |
| David Dow, Mark Dow - 2002 - 320 ˹éÒ
...which the white man was bound to respect"l. Plessy v Ferguson, 163 US 537. 552 (1896l (holding that "[i]f one race be inferior to the other socially,...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane"l. 191. John C.Jeffries Jr., Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.: A Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's... | |
| Annette Gordon-Reed - 2002 - 252 ˹éÒ
...separating "political equality" from so-called social rights. They applauded Justice Brown's comment that "if one race be inferior to the other socially, the...Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane." The New Orleans Times-Picayune, one of Louisiana's most widely circulated newspapers,... | |
| Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 2009 - 346 ˹éÒ
...inferior to the other socially," he concluded, careful not to designate which race he had in mind, "the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."33 But for the Court, enforcement of social equality, unlike that of political and civil equality,... | |
| James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - 2003 - 660 ˹éÒ
...represented in this Jim Crow law were beyond the purview of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Brown declared, "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Given this interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the only question the Court had to address was... | |
| Melba J. Duncan - 2003 - 324 ˹éÒ
...been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competence of the state legislatures.... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane. But a Lone Dissent Foreshadows a Later Legal Breakthrough In respect of civil rights, common to all... | |
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