But a State transcends its proper function, when it interferes with those Equal Rights, whether civil or political, which by the Declaration of Independence and repeated texts of the National Constitution are under the safeguard of the Nation.
He warns that a state oversteps its boundaries when it infringes upon the equal rights protected by the Constitution.
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