This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...or in any actual experiment heretofore tried, an exposition of the term citizen which has not been 'understood as conferring the actual possession and enjoyment, or the perfect right of acquisition and enjoyment of an' entire equality of privileges, civil and 1oLIrIOAL." The Supreme Court of Kentucky, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...or in any actual experiment heretofore tried, an exposition of the term citizen which has not been 'understood as conferring the actual possession and enjoyment, or the perfect right of acquisition and enjoyment of an' entire equality of privileges, civil and 1oLIrIOAL." The Supreme Court of Kentucky, in the case of Amy v. Smith, says, " To be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the' enjoyment of those privileges and immunities upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens, and unless he is so entitled he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen...". " No one can, therefore, in the correct sense of the term, be a citizen of a State who is not entitled, upon the terms prescribed by the institutions of the State, to all the rights and privileges conferred by these institutions upon the highest class of society."'I' ' Amy was a colored woman, and the question was whether she should enjoy civil rights as a citizen. The Court decided that inasmuch as she could not enjoy the elective franchise she was not a citizen in the sense in which that word was used in Article IV, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States. PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES. The phrase, "privileges and immunities," was borrowed from Magna Charta, and was used in Article IV, Section 2, in the Federal Constitution with its common-law signification, as synonymous with rights. It was intended to include all the rights, "in their nature fundamental," which belong to citizens of a free government, and which were enjoyed by the citizens of the several States at the adoption of the Constitution, "one of which is the elective franchise."i,19...
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