...but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon (sex), or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two (sexes) upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political, equality . . . ."'"Justice Brown applied a reasonableness standard to determine the validity of the legislation....

...of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court said: The object of the amendment . . . could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...political equality, or a commingling of the two races. . . . Laws permitting and even requiring their separation in places where they are liable to be brought...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon ! color,...from political, equality, or a commingling of the t\vo races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Ьалл'з permitting, and even requiring, their separation...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law. but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political equality, . . . Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political equality" (163 US at 544). Here we are presented with the issue of segregation framed entirely as a question...

...for the seven-to-one majority, decreed that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment "could not have intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political, equality."" So the Court ignored Phillips' hairsplitting. Yet at bottom Phillips' plea was in the strongest spirit...

...Fourteenth Amendment was to ensure absolute racial equality before the law, "it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political equality, or [to enforce] a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."19 The Court seemed...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political equality. . . ."1 This distinction between social and political equality, and the exclusion of the former from...

...equality between the two races before the law. "But in the nature of things" the amendment could not have intended to "abolish distinctions based upon color,...to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality."38 The Court affirmed a Louisiana statute stating that conductors "shall have power and are...