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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... responsibilities left to the people of the various States , are like- wise left to the people of the District of Columbia . I am often asked , why seek full voting representation now ? Why press for Senate seats for the District with ...
... responsibilities left to the people of the various States , are like- wise left to the people of the District of Columbia . I am often asked , why seek full voting representation now ? Why press for Senate seats for the District with ...
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... responsibility for the governance of the people of this District . So that those two arguments I think , among others , are the most . potent I think in dealing with that question of retrocession . Mr. McCLORY . Thank you , Mr. Chairman ...
... responsibility for the governance of the people of this District . So that those two arguments I think , among others , are the most . potent I think in dealing with that question of retrocession . Mr. McCLORY . Thank you , Mr. Chairman ...
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... responsibility and duty as members of the most demo- cratic governmental unit in the world to correct this wrong . To do less would be an unpardonable micarriage of our oath of office , as well as a blatant miscarriage of justice ...
... responsibility and duty as members of the most demo- cratic governmental unit in the world to correct this wrong . To do less would be an unpardonable micarriage of our oath of office , as well as a blatant miscarriage of justice ...
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... government . It is the responsibility , however , of this great committee of the Congress to make certain that the system furnishes equity for the good of all the people of this Republic . Last year , during the " Spirit of " 76 23.
... government . It is the responsibility , however , of this great committee of the Congress to make certain that the system furnishes equity for the good of all the people of this Republic . Last year , during the " Spirit of " 76 23.
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... responsibility for the District's affairs . Ördinary fairness and basic principles of American democracy , therefore , require that the citizens of the District have a voice in Con- gress equal to that of individual citizens across the ...
... responsibility for the District's affairs . Ördinary fairness and basic principles of American democracy , therefore , require that the citizens of the District have a voice in Con- gress equal to that of individual citizens across the ...
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17th amendment 23d amendment 95th Congress ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION argument BUTLER Chairman Civil and Constitutional clause 17 Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional representation consent constitutional amendment constitutional provisions Constitutional Rights democratic denied District citizens District of Columbia District residents diversity jurisdiction Don Edwards DRINAN election equal rights amendment equal suffrage exclusive legislative 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 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Maryland McClory ment MILLER Nation's Capital nominal statehood political population problem proposed question ratification RAVEN-HANSEN REID repre representation in Congress retrocede right to vote SALTZBURG seat of government Senate STAREK statement status Subcommittee on Civil territories testimony Thank tion U.S. Senate United Vice President Virginia VOLKMER voting rights WALD Women Voters
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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 1 - Judiciary permit coverage of this hearing in whole or in part by television broadcast, radio broadcast, photography, or any such method of coverage pursuant to committee rule 5.
Página 160 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...
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 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 212 - 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...
Página 182 - ... familiar. For in setting up an enduring framework of government they undertook to carry out for the indefinite future and in all the vicissitudes of the changing affairs of men, those fundamental purposes which the instrument itself discloses. Hence we read its words, not as we read legislative codes which are subject to continuous revision with the changing course of events, but as the revelation of the great purposes which were intended to be achieved by the Constitution as a continuing instrument...