District of Columbia Representation and Vote: Hearings, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 529. April 6, 7, 1960 |
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... deny residents of the District the right to vote . Technically , voting rights are denied District residents because the Constitution is said to provide machinery only through the States for the election of Senators and Representatives ...
... deny residents of the District the right to vote . Technically , voting rights are denied District residents because the Constitution is said to provide machinery only through the States for the election of Senators and Representatives ...
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... deny representation to an area of the country which exceeds in population , as the chair- man has indicated , 12 States ... denied the right to participate in its political processes . I say to the members of this subcommittee that this ...
... deny representation to an area of the country which exceeds in population , as the chair- man has indicated , 12 States ... denied the right to participate in its political processes . I say to the members of this subcommittee that this ...
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... deny but that home rule can be granted to the District of Columbia by legislative enactment through the usual procedure of a bill being passed by both Houses and the President affixing his signature to it . When it comes to the further ...
... deny but that home rule can be granted to the District of Columbia by legislative enactment through the usual procedure of a bill being passed by both Houses and the President affixing his signature to it . When it comes to the further ...
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... denied a voice in the selection of the President and Vice President of our country . These same persons have been denied a voice in the Congress since 1874. Your resolution is thus praiseworthy in seeking to provide for this ...
... denied a voice in the selection of the President and Vice President of our country . These same persons have been denied a voice in the Congress since 1874. Your resolution is thus praiseworthy in seeking to provide for this ...
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... denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed and of those who accepted the Constitution of the United States , on questions of genuine meaning . " Among the 85 essays making up the Federalist , No. 43 , written ...
... denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed and of those who accepted the Constitution of the United States , on questions of genuine meaning . " Among the 85 essays making up the Federalist , No. 43 , written ...
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86th Congress American citizens Association believe BROYHILL census citizenship Club CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional constitutional amendment Dakota Democratic denied discharge petition District of Columbia District residents election electoral college EMANUEL CELLER entitled exclusive legislation exercise favor form of government grant gress hearings HOLTZMAN home rule bill House Joint Resolution House of Representatives impotency Joint Resolution 529 Judiciary Committee legislatures LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Maryland McCULLOCH MEADER ment MULTER Nation's Capital national representation number of Delegates number of electors participate political population President and Vice presidential electors principle privilege proposed amendment question ratified representation in Congress Republican right to vote S.J. Res seat of government self-government Senate Joint Resolution Senator KEATING Senator RANDOLPH South Dakota Stat statehood statement subcommittee suffrage taxation without representation taxes territory Thank tion U.S. SENATOR United Vice President Virginia voice vote for President voting rights Washington West Virginia Women
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Page 33 - 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...
Page 25 - The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 87 - Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma...
Page 137 - ... they will have had their voice in the election of the government -which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own suffrages will of course be allowed them...
Page 101 - That the foundation of English liberty and of all free government, is, a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Page 86 - Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Washington Wisconsin Wyoming Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Florida Georgia...
Page 101 - 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.
Page 104 - As this is a departure, for a special purpose, from the general principles of our system, it may merit consideration whether an arrangement better adapted to the principles of our Government and to the particular interests of the people may not be devised which will neither infringe the Constitution nor affect the object which the provision in question was intended to secure.
Page 25 - ... 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 the twelfth article of amendment. SECTION...
Page 89 - ... Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition, that the operation of the federal government will by degrees prove fatal to the state governments. The more I revolve the subject, the more fully I am persuaded that the balance is much more likely to be disturbed by the preponderancy of the last than of the first scale.