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Bradwell v. The State U.S. 130 (1873)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0344 and id is 1 raw text is: BRADWELL v. THE STATE. Statement of the case. I earnestly hope that the consequences to follow may prove less serious and far-reaching than the minority fear they will be. BRADWELL v. THE STATE. 1. The Supreme Court of Illinois having refused to grant to a woman a license to practice law in the courts of that State, on the ground that females are not eligible under the laws of that State; Held, that such a decision violates no provision of the Federal Constitution. 2. The second section of the fourth article is inapplicable, because the plain- tiff was a citizen of the State of whose action she complains, and that section only guarantees privileges and immunities to citizens of other States, in that State. 8. Nor is the right to practice law in the State courts a privilege or immu- nity of a citizen of the United States, within the meaning of the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment of the Constitution of the United States. 4. The power of a State to prescribe the qualifications for admission to the bar of its own courts is unaffected by the fourteenth amendment, and this court cannot inquire into the reasonableness or propriety of the rules it may prescribe. IN error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, residing in the State of Illinois, made application to the judges of the Supreme Court of that State for a license to practice law. She accompanied her petition with the usual certificate from an inferior court of her good character, and that on due examination she had been found to possess the requisite qualifications. Pending this appli- cation she also filed an affidavit, to the effect that she was born in the State of Vermont; that she was (had been) a citizen of that State; that she is now a citizen of the United States, and has been for many years past a resident of the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois. And with this affidavit she also filed a paper asserting that, under the fore- going facts, she was entitled to the license prayed for by virtue of the second section of the fourth article of the Con- stitution of the United States, and of the fourteenth article of amend ment of that instrument. [Sup. Ct.

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