...had to say upon this great provision of the amendment. That portion of his opinion in which he says, "We doubt very much whether any action of a State...held to come within the purview of this provision," shows that the learned Justice did not comprehend the far-reaching power of this clause. It is this...

...Cases, the court declared, relative to the clause providing for the equal protection of the Jaws : " We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...of discrimination against the negroes as a class, «r on account of their race, will ever be held to come within Uit! purview of this provision," but...

...Amendment would ever be held as being directed against any action of a State which did not discriminate "against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race." Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wall. 36, 81 . To what extent the Amendment has expanded beyond that limitation...

...Miller took entirely too narrow a view of that clause in the ^oaurim Slaughter-House cases when he said: "We doubt very much whether any action of a state...to come within the purview of this provision." The broader views expressed by Justices Bradley and Swayne, on behalf of themselves and Chief Justice Chase,...

...Wall. 36. a class, was the evil to be remedied by this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden. * * * We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary...

...Wall. 36. a class, was the evil to be remedied by this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden. * * * We doubt very much whether any action of a State -not...held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary...

...decided 14 April 1873. In behalf of the majority of the court, Mr. Justice Miller expressed this opinion: •We doubt very much whether any action of a State...held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency, that a strong case would be necessary...

...Miller, in delivering the opinion in the Slaughter House Cases, pronounced the following dictum : " We doubt very much whether any action of a State not...held to come within the purview of this provision." */ During the early period of the operation of the Amendment this dictum was adhered to by the majority...

...the Supreme Court of the United States said with reference to the 5th section of the 14th amendment: "We doubt very much whether any action of a state,...of discrimination against the negroes as a class, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision." In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162,...

...16 Wall., 361, the first under the Amendment to reach the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Miller said : "We doubt very much whether any action of a State,...held to come within the purview of this provision." That momentous case settled many things, but the above prediction has not been fulfilled. The Court...