Poll Taxes: Hearings ... Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7, an Act Making Unlawful the Requirement for the Payment of a Poll Tax as a Prerequisite to Voting in a Primary Or Other Election for National Officers. October and November, 1943U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 103 стор. |
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Сторінка 8 - It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
Сторінка 8 - 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...
Сторінка 8 - ... development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters. It was enough for them to realize or to hope that they had created an organism; it has taken a century and has cost their successors much sweat and blood to prove that they created a nation. The case before us must be considered in the light of our whole experience and not merely in that of what was said a hundred years ago.
Сторінка 64 - States to abridge or deny the right of a citizen of the United States to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Сторінка 66 - ... undoubted powers of Congress, consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and therefore, within the meaning of that instrument, " necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States.
Сторінка 61 - The states, in prescribing the qualifications of voters for the most numerous branch of their own legislatures, do not do this with reference to the election for members of Congress. 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.
Сторінка 78 - Xth amendment the powers not delegated to the United States nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.
Сторінка 60 - No trace is to be found in the Constitution of an intention to create a dependence of the Government of the Union on those of the States, for the execution of the great powers assigned to it. Its means are adequate to its ends; and on those means alone was it expected to rely for the accomplishment of its ends.
Сторінка 27 - Resolved that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States...
Сторінка 69 - But it is not correct to say that the right to vote for a member of Congress does not depend on the Constitution of the United States. The office, if it be properly called an office, is created by that Constitution and by that alone. It also declares how it shall be filled, namely: by election.