Color is of itself no ground for discipline or police. . . . [I]t is certain that Color no more brings men within the operation of the laws of police than of those of fraud.

The institution of Marriage, including the Family and the rearing of the young, has, on the contrary, always been amenable to the laws of police. . . . Whether therefore two races shall intermarry, and thus destroy both, is a question of police, and, being such, the bona fide details thereof must be left to the legislature.

Brief for Plaintiff in Error at 10-11, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) (No. 210).

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