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The Dissents of John Marshall Harlan I
Author(s) -
PRZYBYSZEWSKI LINDA
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2007.00158.x
Subject(s) - political science , economic history , humanities , philosophy , law and economics , sociology , economics
I want to start by offering you two quotations. Both are from Harlan's famous dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when the rest of the Justices held that it was constitutional to segregate people according to their race. The first quotation is famous; the second is not well‐known—in fact, some of you may have never heard it before. Here is the first quotation: