Module 3: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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  1. justice
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  2. facility
    a building or place that provides a particular service
  3. due process
    administration of justice according to rules and principles
  4. inferiority
    the state of being lesser
  5. prejudice
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  6. naturalize
    make into a citizen
    By the Fourteenth Amendment, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are made citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
  7. jurisdiction
    the territory within which power can be exercised
    By the Fourteenth Amendment, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are made citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
  8. liable
    likely to be or do something
    Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power.
  9. earnestly
    in a sincere and serious manner
    The most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children, which has been held to be a valid exercise of the legislative power even by courts of States where the political rights of the colored race have been longest and most earnestly enforced.
  10. merit
    any admirable or beneficial attribute
    If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other’s merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals.
  11. constitute
    form or compose
    It is true that the question of the proportion of colored blood necessary to constitute a colored person, as distinguished from a white person, is one upon which there is a difference of opinion in the different States, some holding that any visible admixture of black blood stamps the person as belonging to the colored race...others that it depends upon the preponderance of blood...
  12. preponderance
    a superiority in numbers or amount
    It is true that the question of the proportion of colored blood necessary to constitute a colored person, as distinguished from a white person, is one upon which there is a difference of opinion in the different States, some holding that any visible admixture of black blood stamps the person as belonging to the colored race...others that it depends upon the preponderance of blood...
  13. allegation
    statement affirming matters that you are prepared to prove
    Under the allegations of his petition, it may undoubtedly become a question of importance whether, under the laws of Louisiana, the petitioner belongs to the white or colored race.
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