Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 42, S. 1352, and S. 1465, Bills to Assure to Persons Within the Jurisdiction of Every State Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws, and to Prevent the Crime of Lynching, and for Other Purposes, January 19, 20, 21, February 2, 18, and 20, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 198 páginas |
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Página 165 - as to race, sex, language, or religion. "Art. 56. All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in article 55.
Página 62 - (the fourteenth amendment) does not authorize Congress to create a code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights: but to provide modes of redress against the operation of State laws, and the action of State officers executive or judicial, when these are subversive of the fundamental rights specified in the amendment
Página 182 - 51. (Criminal Code, section 19.) Conspiracy to injure persons in exercise of civil rights. "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of
Página 186 - 5299; USC 50: 203) which reads: "Whenever insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State so obstructs or hinders the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, named in
Página 183 - [the Fourteenth Amendment] does not authorize Congress to create a code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights; but to provide modes of redress against the operation of State laws, and the action of State officers, executive or judicial, when these are subversive of the fundamental rights specified in the Amendment." Civil Rights Cases (1883) 109 US
Página 35 - has a duty to protect all persons and their property from violence, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding 5 years, or both. Section 7 imposes upon the Attorney General of the United States the duty of investigating any lynching where he is informed on oath that the State
Página 172 - a mere brutum fulmen, the last section of the amendment invests Congress with power to enforce it by appropriate legislation. To enforce what? To enforce the prohibition. To adopt appropriate legislation for correcting the effects of such prohibited State laws and State acts, and thus to render them effectually null and void
Página 165 - 55. * * * The United Nations shall promote (c) universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. "Art. 56. All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the organization for the achievement of the purposes set
Página 175 - The function of the courts when an act of Congress is appropriately challenged as not conforming to the constitutional mandate is merely to ascertain and declare whether the legislation is in accordance with or in contravention of the provisions of the Constitution, and not to approve or condemn its policy.
Página 194 - of a republican form of government and the treaty-making power. The fourteenth amendment has long demanded this legislation for its full implementation. Our recent obligations under the Charter of the United Nations "to promote universal respect for, and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, or religion," further emphasizes the urgency of this measure.