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Privileges And Immunities Of Citizens In The Several States. Ii., W. J. Meyers
Privileges And Immunities Of Citizens In The Several States. Ii., W. J. Meyers
Michigan Law Review
Turning now to the Posilive side of the question, the cases show that the "privileges and immunities of citizens of a state" do include:- 1. The rizght of free ingress and egress. Dicta to this effect are found in almost every case in which the equal privileges clause" of the constitution is discussed, beginning with Corfield v. Coryell,I and coming down to and including Blake v. McClung,' the last great case upon the clause in question.3 The only case directly in point seems to be Smith v. Moody., Smith was a negro, born free within the state of Ohio, and …
Privileges And Immunities Of Citizens In The Several States, W. J. Meyers
Privileges And Immunities Of Citizens In The Several States, W. J. Meyers
Michigan Law Review
The Federal Constitution, Art. IV., § 2, cl. 1, declares that "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states." Of this clause Alexander Hamilton wrote: "It may be esteemed the basis of the Union"; and more than seventy years after it had gone into effect, Judge Denio said of it, in deciding the great case of Lemmon v. People, "No provision has tended so strongly to constitute the citizens of the United States one people as this." It is the purpose of this inquiry to ascertain what are the …