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Quotation from Slaughter-House Cases by Supreme Court of the United States
“But, however pervading this sentiment, and however it may have contributed to the adoption of the amendments we have been considering, we do not see in those amendments any purpose to destroy the main features of the general system.”
Slaughter-House Cases, Opinion of the Court (Miller, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Miller acknowledges the wartime sentiment favoring national power but declines to read the amendments as transforming the federal structure.
Citation: "But, however pervading this sentiment, and however it may have contributed to the adoption of the amendments we have been considering, we do not see in those amendments any purpose to destroy the main features of the general system." — Supreme Court of the United States, Slaughter-House Cases, Opinion of the Court (Miller, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id slaughter-house-cases-q3)
Portrait: Samuel Freeman Miller - Brady-Handy, Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain.
