 It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in the same place and under like circumstances.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 287by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...clause Is interpreted^ to mean simply " that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...the same place and under like circumstances." The Court has been called upon to construe the Fourteenth Amendment in several cases in which questions... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 768 pages
...further said by the court, " that no person, or class of persons, should be denied the same protection which is enjoyed by other persons, or other classes,...the same place, and under like circumstances." The same court, in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US (2 Otto), 542, 555, per WAITE, CJ, used the following... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 708 pages
...persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...classes in the same place and under like circumstances." In City of Chicago v. Manhattan Cement Co. supra, on page 377, it was said : "Statutes similar to ours... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1916 - 716 pages
...guaranty of equal protection of the laws means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in the same place and in like circumstances. 4. SAME — province of legislature and of courts as to the police power. The... | |
 | 1890 - 548 pages
...persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...in the same place, and under like circumstances.' In Barbier \. Connolty, 113 US 81, 32, the conrt say that the fonrteenth amendment ' undonbtedly intended,... | |
 | 1910 - 2132 pages
...special, either In th,e objects soucht to be attained by it, or in the extent of its application." The amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States nor all persons in the same state the benefit of the same laws. Great diversities in the character... | |
 | 1893 - 1094 pages
...persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...same laws« and the same remedies. Great diversities N in these respects may exist in two states'eep-* arated only by an imaginary line. On one side of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1242 pages
...punishment. The fourteenth amendment means "that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...classes in the same place and under like circumstances." Missouri v. Lewis, 101 US 22. The general doctrine is that that amendment, In respect of the administration... | |
 | 1906 - 1164 pages
...persons and classes of persons. It means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws which is enjoyed by other persons...circumstances. The fourteenth amendment does not profess t«> secure to all persons In the United States thr benefit of the same laws and the same rem edles.... | |
 | 1884 - 552 pages
..." The fourteenth amendment," as was said by Mr. Justice Bradley in Missouri v. Lewis, 101 US 22-31, "does not profess to secure to all persons in the...same remedies. Great diversities in these respects mny exist in two States separated only by an imaginary line. On one side of this line there may be... | |
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