Sentences with phrase «supposed purpose of the amendment»

Where I do take some issue with the Court's reasoning is in its reliance on the supposed purpose of the amendment.

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I take leave to say that the New York statute, in the particulars here involved, can not be held to be in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment without enlarging the scope of the Amendment far beyond its original purpose and without bringing under the supervision of this court matters which have been supposed to belong exclusively to the legislative departments of the several States when exerting their conceded power to guard the health and safety of their citizens by such regulations as they in their wisdom deem best.