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"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
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"Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean."

"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."

"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."

"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."

"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."

"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."

"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."

"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."

"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
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