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Quotation from Slaughter-House Cases by Supreme Court of the United States
“It is nothing less than the question whether the recent amendments to the Federal Constitution protect the citizens of the United States against the deprivation of their common rights by State legislation.”
Slaughter-House Cases, Dissent of Justice Field (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Field states what he believes is at stake for the whole country.
Citation: "It is nothing less than the question whether the recent amendments to the Federal Constitution protect the citizens of the United States against the deprivation of their common rights by State legislation." — Supreme Court of the United States, Slaughter-House Cases, Dissent of Justice Field (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id slaughter-house-cases-q4)
Portrait: Samuel Freeman Miller - Brady-Handy, Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain.
