Poll Taxes: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on A. 1280...July 19, 1941; March 12, 13, 14, July 30, September 22 and 23, 1942 & October 13, 1942, Pt. 21942 - 552 páginas |
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abolish the poll Alabama American Arkansas average ballot bill BRANT Breedlove CALDWELL candidate Chairman citizens clause committee congressional constitutionality convention corruption declared democracy disfranchised exercise fact Federal Constitution Federal elections fifteenth amendment fourteenth amendment franchise Georgia Gouverneur Morris Governor Justice labor legislation legislature manner of holding means Members of Congress ment Mississippi nineteenth amendment non-poll-tax numerous branch organization paid payment of poll Percent of population percentage persons political poll tax poll-tax receipts poll-tax requirement population voting power of Congress prerequisite for voting prescribe President primary election protect provisions qualifications of voters question record regulate repeal republican restrictions right of suffrage right to vote Senator NORRIS Senator O'MAHONEY Senator PEPPER South Carolina Southern statement statute subcommittee Supreme Court tax requirement Tennessee Texas tion Total United United States Constitution United States Senators Virginia votes cast women Yarbrough
Passagens conhecidas
Página 211 - ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behaviour.
Página 5 - ... shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly and all officers elective by the people...
Página 227 - I am greatly mistaken, notwithstanding, if there be any article in the whole plan more completely defensible than this. Its propriety rests upon the evidence of this plain proposition that every government ought to contain in itself the means of its own preservation.
Página 182 - To adopt appropriate legislation for correcting the effects of such prohibited state laws and state acts, and thus to render them effectually null, void, and innocuous.
Página 221 - WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION.
Página 364 - 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 182 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.
Página 231 - ... Nation, on those subjects on which it can act, must necessarily bind its component parts. But this question is not left to mere reason; the people have, in express terms, decided it by saying, 'this Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof," ''shall be the supreme law of the land...
Página 393 - 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 16 - The provision made by the convention appears, therefore, to be the best that lay within their option. It must be satisfactory to every State, because it is comformable to the standard already established, or which may be established, by the State itself. It will be safe to the United States, because, being fixed by the State constitutions, it is not alterable by the State governments, and it cannot be feared that the people of the States will alter this part of their constitutions in such a manner...