Trump v. Barbara · ¶407
The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in the wake of the Civil War, “with the one pervading purpose” of securing equal citizenship for the freed slaves. Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall., at 71. It was enacted, as Justice Harlan wrote, “to secure to a race recently emancipated” the “civil rights” that other citizens enjoyed. Plessy, 163 U. S., at 555–556.Read in context ›
slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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