For leis, kukui nuts are sanded and polished smooth before stringing on the garland. Colors. Kukui nuts come in a variety of colors and so, then, do kukui nut leis. These garlands are found in brown, black, white, blond or any combination of these. Imitations. Some leis are labeled kukui nut, but are, in fact, plastic beads made to resemble kukui nuts.
In 1884, the Supreme Court in Elk v. Wilkins noted that the language of the Civil Rights Act was condensed and rephrased in the Fourteenth Amendment and that courts can therefore look to the Civil Rights Act to understand better the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first intended to secure the rights of â¦ former slaves. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.he 14th Amendment was applied strongly in the famed Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) which helped to overturn so-called Jim Crow laws and outlawed racial segregation in the United States. The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees all citizens the right to vote.