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Equal Protection Clause

12–8 President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866, Chapter 12, African American history

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12?8 President Johnson?s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 The Civil Rights Act was the first major piece of legislation to become law over a president?s veto. John- son?s veto message helped make the estrangement between Congress and the President irreparable. Johnson?s constitutional arguments induced Congress to enact the Fourteenth Amendment, which for- bade individual states to deprive citizens of the ?equal protection of the laws.? SOURCE: Richardson, ed., Messages and Papers, Vol. VI, p. 405ff. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 1866. To the Senate of the United States:?I regret that the bill, which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled ?An act to protect all persons in the

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Facts of the Case? The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. Question? Is Louisiana's law mandating racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? Conclusion? Decision:?7 votes for Ferguson, 1 vote(s) against Legal provision:?US Const. Amend 14, Section 1
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