| Charles L. Black - 1997 - 204 Seiten
...examination of the language of these amendments, no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newlymade freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion... | |
| Michael J. Perry - 2001 - 286 Seiten
...referred to "the one pervading purpose found in [the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments], lying at the foundation of each, and without which...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion... | |
| Mark Graber - 1999 - 255 Seiten
...that "the one pervading purpose found in" the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments was "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...made freeman and citizen from the oppression of those that formerly had exercised unlimited dominion over him."9 The central question of much current equal... | |
| Pamela Brandwein - 1999 - 292 Seiten
...the Reconstruction Amendments, declared Justice Samuel Miller famously in the Slaughter-House Cases, "found in them all, lying at the foundation of each,...which none of them would have been even suggested," was "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection... | |
| Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 Seiten
...examination of the language of these amendments, no one can fail to be impressed with the one pervading purpose found in them all, lying at the foundation...that freedom, and the protection of the newly made freedman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over... | |
| John E. Semonche - 2000 - 532 Seiten
...the other two Reconstruction additions to the Constitution and said that their collective purpose was "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...that freedom, and the protection of the newly made . . . [freedman] from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him."... | |
| David E. Kyvig - 2000 - 276 Seiten
...equal protection clause. According to Miller, "the one prevailing purpose" of these amendments was "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made Freeman and citizens."65 It is therefore ironic that the equal protection clause offered... | |
| Faye J. Crosby, Cheryl VanDeVeer - 2000 - 356 Seiten
...history. The Court's initial view of the Fourteenth Amendment was that its "one pervading purpose" was "freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised dominion over... | |
| Bruce A. Ackerman - 2001 - 269 Seiten
...text. As it explained, all three of the Reconstruction Amendments had "one pervading purpose . . . lying at the foundation of each, and without which...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion... | |
| Gerald James Larson - 2001 - 384 Seiten
...that The Court's initial view of the Fourteenth Amendment was that its "one pervading purpose" was the "freedom of the slave race, the security and firm...establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppression of those who had formerly exercised dominion over... | |
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