The Fourteenth Amendment and the States: A Study of the Operation of the Restraint Clauses of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

240 Pages·1974·8.57 MB·English

by  Charles Wallace Collins M.A. (auth.)

Charles Wallance Collins
THE FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT AND
THE STATES
THE
FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT
AND THE STATES
Da Capo Press Reprints in
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL mSTORY
GENERAL EDITOR: LEONARD W. LEVY
Claremont Graduate School
THE
FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT
AND THE STATES
A Study of the Operation of the Restraint Clauses
of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States
by
Charles Wallace Collins
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC 1974
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Collins, Charles Wallace, 1879-1964.
The Fourteenth amendment and the states.
(Da Capo Press reprints in American constitutional
and legal history)
Reprint of the ed. published by Little, Brown,
Boston.
1. United States. Constitution. 14th amendment.
2. State rights. 1. Title.
KF4558.14th.C64 1974 342'.73'04 74-5437
ISBN 978-1-4757-1444-9 ISBN 978-1-4757-1442-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-1442-5
This Da Capo Press edition of The Fourteenth Amendment
and the States is an unabridged republication of the first
edition published in Boston in 1912.
Published by Da Capo Press, Inc.
Springer Science+Business Media New York 1974
Originally published by Plenum Publishing Corporation New York in 1974
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THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
AND THE STATES
THE
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
AND THE STATES
A STUDY OF THE OPERATION OF THE RESTRAINT
CLAUSES OF SECTION ONE OF THE
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES
BY
CHARLES WALLACE COLLINS, M.A.
SOMETIME FELLOW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
MEMBER OF THE ALABAMA BAR
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1912
Copyright, 1912,
By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
All rights reuTfied
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8. J. P ."'KBILL ell Co., BOSTON, U.S.A.
TO
MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER
PREFACE
THE studies here presented are the outgrowth of a
paper read before the Government Club of Harvard
University in February, 1911. Some of them have within
recent months appeared, in substantially their present
form, in certain of the academic and legal journals.
In the preparation of the statistical material the
author has made no use of the current digests of deci
sions, annotations to the Constitution, nor of the indices
to the Supreme Court Reports, except by way of com
parison of results. He has gone directly to the body of
the Reports and given each case a personal examination.
Much repetition will be found throughout the work.
This may detract from its logical unity, but it is hoped
that it may serve some purpose. The true nature of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States is little known. The processes of its
operation are intricate and complex. This reiteration,
therefore, of certain salient features may not be amiss
in serving to render more familiar a subject that, al
though not new historically, has been scantily discussed.
The author's thanks are due to the editors of the
following periodicals for the courtesy of extending to
him the copyright privileges for the use of the material
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