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United States v. Wheeler

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 13, 1920No. 68PublishedCited by 76 opinions

ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOB THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA. The case is stated in the opinion. Our claim, and our> entire claim, is that the right of free ingress and egress is secured, not by any express provision of the Constitution (except , in so far as the Fourteenth Amendment enlarges the scope of the term “citizen of the United States”), but impliedly by the creation of citizenship of the United States, as contradistinguished from purely state…

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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOB THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA. The case is stated in the opinion. Our claim, and our> entire claim, is that the right of free ingress and egress is secured, not by any express provision of the Constitution (except , in so far as the Fourteenth Amendment enlarges the scope of the term “citizen of the United States”), but impliedly by the creation of citizenship of the United States, as contradistinguished from purely state citizenship, which the Constitution as certainly and immediately effected as it did the Union itself. It was “the.people of…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White

The case is here under the Criminal Appeals Act to directly review a judgment quashing an indictment against the 25 persons who are defendants in error! The indictment contained four counts, but as the fourth is now abandoned by the Government we need not consider it.

The first count charged the accused with conspiring, in violation of § 19 of the Criminal Code, to Injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate 221 named persons, alleged to be citizens of the United States residing in Arizona, of rights or privileges secured to them by the Constitution or laws of the United States, that is to say,…

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  2. Paul v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
  3. Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  4. Crandall v. NevadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
  5. Ward v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1871

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  3. Colgate v. HarveySupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  4. Patricia Johnson Michael Au France v. City of CincinnatiCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2003
  5. Lutz, David D. v. City of York, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1990

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