The justice who authored this opinion did so in order to uphold what type of
laws?
laws?
Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts, or to
abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and
the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the
difficulties of the present situation. If the civil and political
rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the
other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other
socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put
them upon the same plane.
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1893
O
A. Equal suffrage
)
O
B. Segregation
)
C. Abolition
B
O
D. Civil rights