Constitutional Amendment Reserving State Control Over Public Schools: Hearings...86-1...May 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 19591959 - 282 páginas |
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14th amendment administrative control admission adopted Alaska American Attorney authority BEARD believe Board of Education Brown Chairman CHUMBRIS citizens colored committee Congress constitutional amendment decided decision District of Columbia enforce equal facilities equal protection ESTES KEFAUVER exclusive control Federal Government FENSTERWALD Ferguson Georgia Gong Lum Governor VANDIVER HART hearing intent interpretation Joint Resolution 32 judge judicial Judiciary LEETCH legislation legislature Louisiana Maryland matter mean ment MORROW Negro opinion Plessy President principle problem proposed amendment public education public school system public schools question race racial segregation ratified record referred school segregation segregated schools Senate Joint Resolution Senator DODD Senator KEFAUVER Senator ROBERTSON Senator SPARKMAN Senator TALMADGE separate but equal separate schools South stare decisis statement statute subdivision Texas Thank thereof tion U.S. Constitution U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court United usurpation Virginia Washington
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Página 241 - We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Página 72 - I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Página 89 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation : for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Página 79 - I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races...
Página 37 - ... requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. The most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children, which has been held to be a valid exercise of the legislative power even...
Página 89 - If men were angels, no government would be necessary If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Página 244 - ... to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a non-racial basis, and revision of local laws and regulations •which may be necessary in solving the foregoing problems.
Página 220 - What is this but declaring that the law in the States shall be the same for the black as for the white ; that all persons, whether colored or white, shall stand equal before the laws of the States, and, in regard to the colored race, for whose protection the amendment was primarily designed, that no discrimination shall be made against them by law because of their color?
Página 39 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.