Poll Taxes: Hearings ... Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7, an Act Making Unlawful the Requirement for the Payment of a Poll Tax as a Prerequisite to Voting in a Primary Or Other Election for National Officers. October and November, 1943U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 103 páginas |
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Página 66 - That the constitution of Arkansas shall never be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote, who are entitled to vote by the constitution herein recognized...
Página 8 - ... development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters. It was enough for them to realize or to hope that they had created an organism; it has taken a century and has cost their successors much sweat and blood to prove that they created a nation. The case before us must be considered in the light of our whole experience and not merely in that of what was said a hundred years ago.
Página 8 - It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
Página 66 - States to abridge or deny the right of a citizen of the United States to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Página 68 - ... undoubted powers of Congress, consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and therefore, within the meaning of that instrument, " necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States.
Página 63 - The states, in prescribing the qualifications of voters for the most numerous branch of their own legislatures, do not do this with reference to the election for members of Congress. Nor can they prescribe the qualification for voters for those eo nomine. They define who are to vote for the popular branch of their own legislature, and the Constitution of the United States says the same persons shall vote for members of Congress in that state.
Página 29 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Página 94 - Certainly, if the courts can consider any question settled, this is one. For nearly ninety years the people have acted upon the idea that the Constitution, when it conferred citizenship, did not necessarily confer the right of suffrage. If uniform practice, long continued, can settle the construction of so important an instrument as the Constitution of the United States confessedly is, most certainly it has been done here. Our province is to decide what the law is, not to declare what it should be.
Página 80 - Xth amendment the powers not delegated to the United States nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.
Página 27 - Resolved that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States...