Representation for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 246 páginas |
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... political system to develop some alternatives to the kinds of representative body we have in the House of Representatives , and the kind of area representation we have in the Senate . I will be very interested in the testimony that we ...
... political system to develop some alternatives to the kinds of representative body we have in the House of Representatives , and the kind of area representation we have in the Senate . I will be very interested in the testimony that we ...
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... political right since the incep- tion of this nation . Further , I would like to add that it gave me a great deal of pleasure to join my distinguished colleague , Senator Kennedy , as a co - sponsor of a constitutional amendment which ...
... political right since the incep- tion of this nation . Further , I would like to add that it gave me a great deal of pleasure to join my distinguished colleague , Senator Kennedy , as a co - sponsor of a constitutional amendment which ...
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... political views through a freely elected representative or representatives . That is all the citizens of the District are asking . The irony of these hearings is that it has taken over 200 years to provide them with that right ...
... political views through a freely elected representative or representatives . That is all the citizens of the District are asking . The irony of these hearings is that it has taken over 200 years to provide them with that right ...
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... political representation . It is a matter of record , as I am sure you and the members of this committee know , that the residents early on in our civilization , in our Government , did have the right to participate in Presidential and ...
... political representation . It is a matter of record , as I am sure you and the members of this committee know , that the residents early on in our civilization , in our Government , did have the right to participate in Presidential and ...
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... political process . I urge this committee to act favorably on these resolutions H.J. Res . 139 and H.J. Res . 142 and bring that goal one step closer to reality . Mr. EDWARDS . We will now adjourn and meet again on this subject on the ...
... political process . I urge this committee to act favorably on these resolutions H.J. Res . 139 and H.J. Res . 142 and bring that goal one step closer to reality . Mr. EDWARDS . We will now adjourn and meet again on this subject on the ...
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17th amendment 23d amendment 95th Congress ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION argument believe BUTLER ceded Chairman Civil and Constitutional clause 17 Committee congressional representation consent constitutional amendment constitutional provisions Constitutional Rights democratic denied District citizens District of Columbia District residents diversity jurisdiction Don Edwards DRINAN election electors equal rights amendment equal suffrage exclusive legislation Fauntroy framers full representation full voting representation Greater Washington gress H.J. Res hearings home rule House Joint Resolution House of Representatives human rights issue Joint Resolution 554 Judiciary jurisdiction League of Women legislature Maryland McClory ment MILLER Nation's Capital nominal statehood partial retrocession political population problem proposed purposes question ratification RAVEN-HANSEN REID repre representation in Congress right to vote Saltzburg seat of government Senate STAREK statement status Subcommittee on Civil territories testimony Thank tion trict U.S. Congress U.S. Senate United vacancies Vice President Virginia VOLKMER voting rights WALD
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Página 23 - 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 74 - All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Página 175 - No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
Página 64 - Crime will come to order. The Chair has received a request to cover this hearing in whole or in part by television broadcast, radio broadcast, still photography, or by other similar methods. In accordance with committee rule 5(a) permission will be granted unless there is objection.
Página 154 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...
Página 36 - ... To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square), as may by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States ; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the States, in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.
Página 14 - Government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the National Councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the Government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.
Página 5 - Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a pleasure for me to appear before your committee on behalf of the colleges of 1890 and Tuskegee.
Página 206 - Article V of the Constitution, which provides ."that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage iu the Senate, "has any bearing on this question.
Página 26 - ... as they will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them...