Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.

Henry Billings Brown

Plessy v. Ferguson

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Jim Crow Legal theory

Author

Henry Billings Brown

Source

Plessy v. Ferguson

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Supreme Court Justice Judge Lawyer

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United States

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Brown, Henry Billings. United States, Supreme Court. Plessy v. Ferguson. United States Reports, vol. 163, 18 May 1896, pp. 537-564. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/.

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

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Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them.

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Benjamin Hoadly
Medium
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Religious literature
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Time
1717 1710s 18th century
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