Poll Tax and Enfranchisement of District of ColumbiaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 106 páginas |
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17th amendment adopted Arkansas BERNARD FENSTERWALD bill Chairman citizens citizenship civil rights committee constitutional amendment Convention Delegates denied District of Columbia entitled to vote ESTES KEFAUVER Federal Constitution Federal Government Federalist Papers FENSTERWALD Florida fourteenth amendment freehold Hampshire constitution Happersett hearings home rule House of Representatives inhabitants Joint Resolution 126 legislation legislature matter ment Mississippi North Carolina numerous branch offers to vote officers paid participation paupers payment of poll persons poll tax poll-tax requirement preceding the election prerequisite for voting prescribed Presidential electors privileges and immunities property qualification proposed amendment provisions qualification for voting qualifications of electors qualifications requisite question ratified RAUH record reference registered resided Rhode Island right to vote Senate Joint Resolution Senator HOLLAND Senator Keating Senator KEFAUVER statement statute subcommittee submitted Supreme Court tax requirement tion town U.S. SENATE United Virginia word qualifications
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Página 52 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties,...
Página 4 - The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Página 64 - A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by...
Página 60 - ... a part of the powers of the states and of the people of the states was granted to the United States and the people of the United States. This grant operated as a further limitation upon the powers of the states, so that now the governments of the states possess all the powers of the Parliament of England, except such as have been delegated to the United States or reserved by the people.
Página 52 - The constitutional provision there alluded to did not create those rights, which it called privileges and immunities of citizens of the States. It threw around them in that clause no security for the citizen of the State in which they were claimed or exercised. Nor did it profess to control the power of the State governments over the rights of its own citizens.
Página 25 - And to remove all doubts concerning the meaning of the word "inhabitant" in this Constitution, every person shall be considered as an inhabitant, for the purpose of electing and being elected into any office, or place within this State, in that town, district, or plantation, where he dwelleth, or hath his home.
Página 52 - We feel no hesitation in confining these expressions to those privileges and immunities which are, in their nature, fundamental; which belong, of right, to the citizens of all free governments; and which have, at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the several states which compose this Union, from the time of their becoming free, independent, and sovereign.
Página 65 - The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State...
Página 96 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Página 49 - The guaranty necessarily implies a duty on the part of the States themselves to provide such a government. All the States had governments when the Constitution was adopted. In all the people participated to some extent, through their representatives elected in the manner specially provided. These governments the Constitution did not change. They were accepted precisely as they were, and it is, therefore, to be presumed that they were such as it was the duty of the States to provide. Thus we have...