Name: Lawrence v. State Tax Commission of Mississippi — Opinion of the Court
Author: Harlan F. Stone

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Owen Roberts, Hague v. CIO — Opinion of the Court

“ As the right is secured to 'any person' by the due process clause, and as the statute permits the suit to be brought by 'any person' as well as by a citizen, it is certain that resort to the privileges and immunities clause would not support the decree which we now sustain and would involve constitutional experimentation as gratuitous as it is unwarranted. ”

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Potter Stewart, Tehan v. United States ex rel. Shott…

“ In a lengthy opinion which thoroughly considered both the Privileges and Immunities Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court held, explicitly and unambiguously, 'that the exemption from compulsory self-incrimination in the courts of the states is not secured by any part of the Federal Constitution.' 211 U.S., at 114, 29 S.Ct., at 26. ”

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George Sutherland, Colgate v. Harvey — Opinion of the Court

“ If the exemption does not merit condemnation as a denial of the equal protection which the Fourteenth Amendment extends to every person, nothing can be added to the vehemence or effectiveness of the denunciation by invoking the command of the privileges and immunities clause. ”

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Stanley Forman Reed, Madden v. Kentucky — Opinion of the Court

“ The privilege or immunity which appellant contends is abridged is the right to carry on business beyond the lines of the State of his residence, a right claimed as appertaining to national citizenship.
There is no occasion to attempt again an exposition of the views of this Court as to the proper limitations of the privileges and immunities clause. There is a very recent discussion in Hague v. Committee Industrial Organization. ”

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Owen Roberts, Hague v. CIO — Opinion of the Court

“ It has been said that the right of citizens to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for the redress of grievances is a privilege of United States citizenship protected by the privileges and immunities clause. ”

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Felix Frankfurter, Angel v. Bullington — Opinion of the Court

“ Art. 1, § 10, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, U.S.Const. art. 4, § 1, the Privileges or Immunities Clause, U.S.Const. art. 4, § 2, all fetter the freedom of a State to deny access to its courts howsoever much it may regard such withdrawal of jurisdiction 'the adjective law of the State', or the exercise of its right to regulate 'the practice and procedure' of its courts. ”

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Harlan F. Stone, Lawrence v. State Tax Commission of Mississippi…

“ But the Constitution, which guarantees rights and immunities to the citizen, likewise insures to him the privilege of having those rights and immunities judicially declared and protected when such judicial action is properly invoked. ”

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