Authors: Joseph P. Bradley

1877–1917

The Civil Rights Cases

Source: 109 U.S. 3 (1883), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/109/3 JUSTICE JOSEPH BRADLEY: It is obvious that the primary and important question in all the cases is the constitutionality of the law; for if

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Race and Civil Rights
1877–1917

The Civil Rights Cases

Source: 109 U.S. 3 (1883); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/109/3. MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY1 delivered the opinion of the court. . . .The first section of the Fourteenth Amendment—which is the one relied

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