. ♪ university of michigan politics professor pamela brandwein discusses justice joseph bradley's dissentughter-house cases," which concerned new orleans butchers' right to practice their trade after the passage of a louisiana state regulatory law. she explains how bradley's broad interpretation of protections conferred by the fourteenth amendment influenced later landmark cases. court historical society event is part of a lecture series on dissent in the supreme court. >> good evening. thank you for being here.

. >> university of michigan politics professor pamela brandwein discusses justice joseph bradley's dissent in the "slaughter-house cases," which concerned new orleans butchers' right to practice their trade after the passage of a louisiana state regulatory law. she explains how bradley's broad interpretation of protections conferred by the fourteenth amendment influenced later landmark cases. this supreme court historical society event is part of a lecture series on dissent in the supreme court. >> good evening. thank you for being here. i'm chilton varner and serve as president of the supreme court

h's james ash has a young attorney named joseph bradley who is inislavery, abolitionist leaning. he had defended and abolitionist editor in a very controversial trial, a high profile libel case in 1835 in washington. argumentey makes the that enslaved people are people, are human beings, of course. he positions the argument around human rights. vd he also cites queen hepburn, but he points to the dissent that said courts should lean in favor of freedom, in favor of liberty. also at trial made the argument, and i quote, "although they are personal property, yet they are also recognized as called in thee so constitution of the united states, and are capable of receiving a bequest of freedom." so ash's argument through bradley is tied to the constitutional question here, are enslaved people persons under the meaning of the constitution? we have talked about in this class, and what does that mean? now, it may surprise you that freedomney upheld ash's in this case. in 1843. achieved a stunning victory, didn't he? his case is one of only a handful of freedom suits at the supreme court

the dissenting opinion is by justice joseph bradley.he majority opinion has been the target of massive criticism. the majority gutted the immunities clause of the 14th amendment, which reads no state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states. the court gutted it by defining rights of national citizenship narrowly on putting fundamental rights under the heading of state citizenship. the case involved white butchers. the white butchers were challenging and 1869 law passed by the louisiana legislature, the reconstructive -- the reconstruction legislature that was biracial, black cell 42 out of 101 seats. the biracial legislature faced racial hostility. it was between passing a pair of laws, one that borrowed race discrimination in public accommodations on the other that integrated public schools, that the legislature passed the 1869 law. , it granted exclusive franchise to a company, crescent city livestock and lending company, to run a public slaughterhouse, a grand slaughterhouse. and it was required to

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