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The quote says that, historically, people did not interpret the Fourteenth Amendment as forbidding racial segregation. It is making a claim about original understanding rather than about what the law came to mean later. The emphasis is on how the amendment was understood at the time, not on a modern reading.
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Originally said in English.
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About Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar and author
Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar and author. He served from 2009 to 2012 as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. His work ranges across U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. He is also the co-author of Nudge (2008) and the author of The World According to Star Wars (2016), a New York Times best seller.
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