 | John Fobanjong - 2001 - 212 страници
...veto of President Andrew Johnson, the act declared that all citizens "shall have the same right ... to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." The act made it a federal crime to interfere, "under color of any law," with anyone's exercise of civil... | |
 | Andrea Mcardle, Tanya Erzen - 2001 - 315 страници
...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and no other." 16. Christopher L. Eisgruber,... | |
 | James W. Clarke - 362 страници
...servitude." It also provided them with all rights of citizenship, including "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." Having no confidence in the willingness of state and local authorities to abide by the law, Congress... | |
 | Michael A. Sommers - 2000 - 148 страници
...citizens. As such, these citizens "of every race and color" could enjoy the "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." The federal government had recognized that, in terms of black Americans, such rights — including... | |
 | 1905 - 394 страници
...same right * * * to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishments, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and executions of every kind, and to no other." It is... | |
 | Annette Gordon-Reed - 2002 - 252 страници
...Thirteenth Amendment did not clarify what rights blacks and people of color would have after slavery. ties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell,...and convey real and personal property, and to full equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property."s The continuing... | |
 | Mary V. Capisio - 2002 - 186 страници
...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other. 42 USC § 1981a This section,... | |
 | T. Alexander Aleinikoff - 2002 - 332 страници
...and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." Act of May 31, 1870, ch. 114, §16, 16 Stat. 140, 144 (codified at 42 USC §1981 (a) (1994)). Use of... | |
 | Najia Aarim-Heriot - 2003 - 318 страници
...rigbts—namely, the natural rights to life, liberty, and property and the right "to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit,...proceedings for the security of person and property." These rights did not, however, involve political or voting rights.4 The objection of Senator Peter... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 2003 - 530 страници
...include ; it has there declared that they include the right ' to make and enforce contracts, to sue, he parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease,...proceedings for the security of person and property.' That act, it is true, was passed before the fourteenth amendment, but the amendment was adopted, as... | |
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States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property... 
