 | Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - 1995 - 512 pages
...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, declares, in sect. 16, that they "shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses,... | |
 | James Walsh - 1995 - 429 pages
...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. The EEOC process proved ineffective... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein - 1992 - 980 pages
...purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, 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."11 The difference in world views between the 1866 act the 1875 act seems too vast to require... | |
 | Antoinette Sedillo López - 1995 - 422 pages
...extends to all persons residing within the state's territoand 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 exactions of every kind, and 1o no other. 42 USC... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. - 1998 - 353 pages
...same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase,...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens. The statute also had an "equal protection" core with declarations that all citizens: "shall be subject... | |
 | the late Bernard Schwartz - 1996 - 501 pages
...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. By its plain terms, the relevant... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 400 pages
...enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and 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."179 If white citizens could under California law exclude Chinese testimony, then blacks,... | |
 | Saidiya V. Hartman - 1997 - 294 pages
...that all persons "shall have the same right in every State and Territory of the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be parties and give...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens." However, of particular importance in the congressional debate on equality in general, and the Civil... | |
 | 1997 - 452 pages
...State and Territory in Ihe United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and £,,ve evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold,...enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punistunent, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom,... | |
 | 1997 - 446 pages
...previous condition of servitude should have the same rights "to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase,...security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens."76 The fourteenth amendment was designed in part to "constitutionalize" the 1866 statute,... | |
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They enact thai 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... 
