Legal Opinion · Dissent

Steuart v. State Ex Rel. Dolcimascolo

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided April 23, 1935Published

1DissentEllis, P. J.

(dissenting). — -The construction which the majority of the members of the Court place on the word “citizen” as it appears in Section 7 of Article X of the Constitution adopted at the general eleetion of 1934 may de stroy the will of the people as it was expressed at the polls in that election.

To say that the word “citizen” as sued in the Section of the Constitution above mentioned “is limited in- its meaning to the term ‘citizen’ as that term is employed and defined in and by Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and as that term is likewise employed in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Dred Scott v. SandfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1857
  2. People v. BradyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1870
  3. Mitchell v. WellsMississippi Supreme Court · 1859

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