If Congress has a right to invade the States for these purposes. then our State lines are imaginary7 and our State governmenIuts but a myth. with no rights or powers not subject to the will of Congress. The friends of this bill claim their power to pass it under the late amendment to the Constitution. which reads as follows: A rT ica 14. All persons born or naturalized in the United Slates. and subact to the jurisltion thereof. aore citizens of the United States and of th Stato wherein thoy reside. No State slall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. nor shall any State dotrive any person of life. liberty. or property without due process of law. nor deny to any person within itsjarisdictiou the equal protection of the laws. Fortunately for the country. and fortunately for this body if they would heed it. this article of the Constitution has just been construed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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