ANSWER QUICKLY PL!! Background:
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Unit 1: Connect with the Past
Final Assignment
Document E
Civil Rights Cases, 1883
[Federal civil rights] legislation cannot properly cover the whole domain of rights appertaining (relate to] life,
liberty, and property, defining them and providing for their vindication. That would ... make congress take the
place of the state legislatures and to supersede them.
It is absurd to affirm that, because the rights of life, liberty, and property... are by the (Fourteenth]
Amendment sought to be protected against invasion on the part of the state without due process of law,
Congress may, therefore, provide due process of law for their vindication in every case, and that, because
the denial by a state to any persons of the equal protection of the laws is prohibited by the amendment,
therefore congress may establish laws for their equal protection.

Question:
Which level of government does this opinion imply has the power to correct state violations of rights
to life, liberty, and property?