 | 1896 - 746 páginas
...law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 956 páginas
...law there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens areequal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1959 - 216 páginas
...discrimination with respect to those rights enjoyed by white citizens in the same State. Therefore, he declared the Amendment confers upon Congress the power to legislate...Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tol17 erates classes among citizens," he wrote. "It is, therefore, to be regretted that this high tribunal,... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1963 - 260 páginas
...law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law." " The Justice's words were to have... | |
 | 1990 - 680 páginas
...Harlan, underscored the significance of its guarantees of equal justice under the law when he wrote: "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the... | |
 | Michael R. Gardner - 2002 - 326 páginas
...opposition to the majority in Plessy, Justice John Marshall Harlan entered a vigorous dissent that argued, "Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Notwithstanding Marlan's dissent, the Court's majority view that separate but equal was constitutionally... | |
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But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. 
