intercourse among the people of the different States of the Union."[1]
7th. That the citizens of the United States of African descent, under this constitutional grant, became eo instanti entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, coming within the legal interpretation of section two of article four of the Constitution,—to wit, "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of the citizens in the several States."
8th. That by no qualification or discrimination on account of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and for no other reasons than by due process of law, or according to the law of the land, which shall be applicable alike to every other of the sixty millions of citizens and to the most favored, by reason of any common law, custom, or State enactment, can the citizens of the United States of African descent be constitutionally deprived of the full and unqualified enjoyment of all such civil immunities and privileges.
9th. That the citizen of African descent, by virtue of being a citizen of the United States, is clothed with immunity from, and protection against, all discrimination on account of his race, color, or previous condition; and, as a citizen of the United States, he is entitled in the several States to all the privileges and immunities which are accorded therein to their most favored citizens as fundamental rights of citizenship.
10th. That under the Fourteenth Amendment, by virtue of section two of article four of the Constitution, the civil rights, immunities, and privileges of American citizens of African descent are not constitutionally subject to any limitations, provisions, requirements, conditions, abatements, rules, regulations, encroachments, or infringements which, in substance or form, directly or indirectly, remotely or proximately, obstruct, interfere with, encroach upon, curtail, infringe, limit, or abridge their immunities and privileges, no matter whether they be promulgated or adopted under color of any law, by any individual, corporation,
- ↑ Coonor v. Elliot, 18 How. 591; Ward v. Maryland, 12 Wall. 418; McCreart v. Virginia, 94 U. S. Rep. 391.
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