| Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 ˹éÒ
...characterized by one scholar as one of the "dimmer lights" on the Court, wrote in the decision, "If one race is inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same level." Two years later, in Williams v. Mississippi, the Court once again approved white... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 ˹éÒ
...voluntary consent of individuals. . . . 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. . . . JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting. . . . The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this... | |
| David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 ˹éÒ
...eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences." The Court reasoned: "If the civil and political rights of both races be...United States cannot put them upon the same plane."" Sixty-four years later, Professor Charles L. Black Jr. of the Yale Law School would say about this... | |
| Brian R. Farmer - 2005 - 476 ˹éÒ
...reflected in the Majority Opinion of Justice Brown in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 when Brown stated that "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Role of the State The role of the State in conservative thought is for security and the protection... | |
| Dwight N. Hopkins - 258 ˹éÒ
...majority opinion of his colleagues in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson legal decision, which argued, "if one race be inferior to the other socially, the...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."6 Constitutional law drew from the objective science of racial anthropology. And both philosophy... | |
| Kermit L. Hall, John J. Patrick - 2006 - 257 ˹éÒ
...individuals." In conclusion, he justified his interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment with this statement: "If the civil and political rights of both races be...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." The lone dissenter in this case, Justice John Marshall Harlan, strongly criticized the opinion of the... | |
| Vernellia Randall - 2006 - 293 ˹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...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."68 The racially segregated health system begun during Reconstruction was "institutionalized... | |
| Patrick S. Washburn, Medill School of Journalism - 2006 - 280 ˹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...inferior to the other socially, the [Constitution] cannot put them upon the same plane. In a sharp, ringing dissent, Justice John Harlan noted that the... | |
| Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau, Celia Rousseau Anderson - 2006 - 306 ˹éÒ
...respecting social advantages with which it is endowed" (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896). Further, Brown asserted, "If one race be inferior to the other, socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." Therefore, the law cannot be responsible for changing racial attitudes; it can only be held responsible... | |
| Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat - 2006 - 321 ˹éÒ
...had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"). 241. 163 US 537, 552 (1896) (holding that "[i]f one race be inferior to the other socially,...United States cannot put them upon the same plane"). 242. John C. Jeffries, Jr., Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography 451 (1994). 243. Foster v. State,... | |
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