But the plaintiff protests against such decision, and she
declares and maintains that said provisions of the Constitution
and registration law of Missouri aforesaid, are in conflict with,
and repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, which is
paramount to State authority; and that they are especially in
conflict with the following articles and clauses of said
Constitution of the United States, to wit:
Art. I. Sec. 9.--Which declares that no Bill of Attainder
shall be passed.
Art. I. Sec. 10.--No State shall pass any Bill of Attainder,
or grant any title of nobility.
Art. IV. Sec. 2.--The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the
several States.
Art. IV. Sec. 4.--The United States shall guarantee to every
State a republican form of government.
Art. VI.--This Constitution and the laws of the United
States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be
the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitutions
or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
AMENDMENTS.
Art. V.--No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty,
or property without due process of law.
Art. IX.--The enumeration in the Constitution of certain
rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people.
Art. XIV. Sec. 1.--All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they
reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction, the equal
protection of the laws.
The plaintiff states, that by reason of the wrongful act of the
defendant as aforesaid, she has been damaged in the sum of ten
thousand dollars, for which she prays judgment.
JOHN M. KRUM, }
FRANCIS MINOR, } _Att'ys for Plffs._
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