...Chinese races, within our territory, this Amendment may safely be trusted to make it void. Aud so if our rights are assailed by the States, which properly...fall within the protection of these Articles, that protectiou will apply, though the party interested may not be of African descent. But what we do say,...

...Mexican or Chinese race within our territory, this amendment may safely be trusted to make it void. And so if other rights are assailed by the States...and necessarily fall within the protection of these [amendments], that protection will apply, though the party interested may not be of African descent."...

...articles are to have their fair and just weight in any question of construction. . . . And so if . . . rights are assailed by the States which properly and...the party interested may not be of African descent." 83 US (16 Wall.) 36, 72, 81 (1873). On Ho Ah Kow's significance see also Aviam Soifer, "On Being Overly...

...reference to the Thirteenth Amendment, the Court used this language: This is the language used by the Supreme Court of the United States in reference to...after declaring who are citizens of the United States, and of States, still further says, " No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the...

...into a variety of slavery, then the Thirteenth Amendment would outlaw it. And, Miller had continued, "if other rights are assailed by the States which...properly and necessarily fall within the protection of [the Reconstruction Amendments], that protection will apply, though the party interested may not be...

...Mexican or Chinese race within our territory, this amendment may safely be trusted to make it void. And so if other rights are assailed by the States...though the party interested may not be of African descent.47 Defying history, experience, and observation, the Texas courts had decided that "Mexican...