 All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory 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...  Republic Or Empire?: The Philippine Question - Page 406by William Jennings Bryan - 1899 - 762 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 pages
...fourteenth amendment, and by the sixteenth section of said act it is declared, "That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall have the same right in every State and territory of the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence,... | |
 | Lillian Foster - 1866 - 322 pages
...lease, sell, hold, or convey real arid personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens. So, too, they are made subject to the same punishments, pains, and penalties common with white citizens,... | |
 | 1866 - 288 pages
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 862 pages
...citizens thereof, is unconstitutional. And in respect to the special rights conferred by the Bill, "the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell, hold, and convey real and personal estate,... | |
 | 1867 - 66 pages
...1866. It made four millions of slavos ci'izens, and entitled them to full and equal beneßt of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." HON. SCHUTLEB COLFAX, on being re-elected, on the 4th of March, 1807, as Speaker to the Fortieth Congress,... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 726 pages
...lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property,' and to have ' full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.' So, too, they are made subject to the same* punishment, pains, and penalties in common with white citizens,... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 716 pages
...lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property,' and to have 'full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.' So, too, they are made subject to the same punishment, pains, and penalties in common with white citizens,... | |
 | 1868 - 422 pages
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
 | 1883 - 552 pages
...exacted that all persons within the jurisdiction of the Uuited States shall have the same right iu every State and territory to make and enforce contracts,...persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, aud shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every... | |
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