| Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 396 pages
...till'after the establishment of the statutory rule under consideration. This amendment provides that no person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name. A signature... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1856 - 1442 pages
...ratification, in order that it may hecome part of the Constitution of this Commonwealth. Article of Amendment. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the... | |
| Massachusetts - Law - 1857 - 518 pages
...submitted to the people for their ratification and adoption. FIRST ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT. NO person who No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to wXot.hSid*oto office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who or how office. shall not be able... | |
| Massachusetts - Law - 1860 - 1158 pages
...the people of the several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. ART. during the time of its sitting, shall threaten harm to the body or e under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the... | |
| JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...by the people of the several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the... | |
| Massachusetts - Session laws - 1862 - 448 pages
...several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. K«°ding consti- ART. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 434 pages
...citizen, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, is a voter. The organic law, however, declares, that "no person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitu- . tion in... | |
| Boston (Mass.). - Municipal law - 1864 - 972 pages
...By the twentieth, amendment of the Constitution of the State, no person shall have a right to vote " who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name." The amendment does not, however, apply to any person prevented by a physical disability... | |
| Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, as recently revised, it is provided that: — ART. 20. — No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the... | |
| New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...as an elector. Ct., 115. — No person shall have (-he right to vote, or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not...able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name : Provided, however, That the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any... | |
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