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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... important day for the people of the District of Columbia . I am sure they are grateful that this sub- committee has met to consider a plight which they have faced for many , many years . The subcommittee certainly is to be commended for ...
... important day for the people of the District of Columbia . I am sure they are grateful that this sub- committee has met to consider a plight which they have faced for many , many years . The subcommittee certainly is to be commended for ...
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... important piece of legislation . May I say at the outset that I appreciate the statement made by the chairman with reference to the home rule discharge petition , which , incidentally , happens to be my petition No. 2 at the desk , and ...
... important piece of legislation . May I say at the outset that I appreciate the statement made by the chairman with reference to the home rule discharge petition , which , incidentally , happens to be my petition No. 2 at the desk , and ...
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... important point . The important point is that the same argument could be made about the signatures which were attached to the civil rights discharge petition . And yet , when the civil rights bill passed the House , it passed the House ...
... important point . The important point is that the same argument could be made about the signatures which were attached to the civil rights discharge petition . And yet , when the civil rights bill passed the House , it passed the House ...
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... important in our legislative process . This isn't my judgment of a moment or of a day , Mr. Chairman . This I strongly feel : the necessity , if any there be , for a petition to dis- charge a committee of further consideration of a bill ...
... important in our legislative process . This isn't my judgment of a moment or of a day , Mr. Chairman . This I strongly feel : the necessity , if any there be , for a petition to dis- charge a committee of further consideration of a bill ...
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... important to the citizens of the District , and I believe also to the long- term settlement of the problem . By the terms of House Joint Resolution 529 , the District would be given an electoral vote equivalent to what it would receive ...
... important to the citizens of the District , and I believe also to the long- term settlement of the problem . By the terms of House Joint Resolution 529 , the District would be given an electoral vote equivalent to what it would receive ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.