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of interstate telegraph messages.[40] (7) Refusal of State court to license a woman to practice law.[41] (8) Law taxing in the hands of a resident citizen a debt owing from a resident of another State and secured by mortgage of land in the debtors' State.[42] (9) Statutes regulating the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.[43] (10) Statute regulating the method of capital punishment.[44] (11) Statute restricting the franchise to male citizens.[45] (12) Statute requiring persons coming into a State to make a declaration of intention to become citizens and residents thereof before being permitted to register as voters.[46] (13) Statute restricting dower, in case wife at time of husband's death is a nonresident, to lands of which he died seized.[47] (14) Statute restricting right to jury trial in civil suits at common law.[48] (15) Statute restricting drilling or parading in any city by any body of men without license of the Governor. "The right voluntarily to associate together as a military company or organization, or to drill * * *, without, and independent of, an act of Congress or law of the State authorizing the same, is not an attribute of national citizenship."[49] (16) Provision for prosecution upon information, and for a jury (except in capital cases) of eight persons.[50] Upon an extended review of the cases, the Court held that "the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States do not necessarily include all the rights protected by the first eight amendments to the Federal Constitution against the powers of the Federal Government"; and specifically, that the right to be tried for an offense only upon indictment, and by a jury of 12, rests with the State governments and is not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. "Those are not distinctly privileges or immunities [of national citizenship] where everyone has the same as against the Federal Government, whether citizen or not." Similarly, freedom from testimonial compulsion, or self-incrimination, is not "an immunity that is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment against State invasion."[51] (17) Statute penalizing the becoming or remaining a member of any oath-bound association (other than benevolent orders, etc.,) with knowledge that the association has failed to file its constitution and membership lists. The privilege of remaining a member of such an association, "if it be a privilege arising out of citizenship at
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