Nomination of James P. Coleman: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session ... July 12 and 13, 1965Considers nomination of James P. Coleman to be Judge of U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Includes legislative and judicial documents relating to school desegregation. |
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... held in the city of Biloxi , Harrison County , Miss . , on the 26th day of June 1965 , as the same appears in the conven- tion minutes of the Mississippi State Bar of which I am official custodian . Certified this 26th day of June 1965 ...
... held in the city of Biloxi , Harrison County , Miss . , on the 26th day of June 1965 , as the same appears in the conven- tion minutes of the Mississippi State Bar of which I am official custodian . Certified this 26th day of June 1965 ...
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... held by many people that the Governor and nominee is very ably represented here this morning by one of our most brilliant lawyers in the country , the Attorney General of the United States of America . I had not heard - I did not know ...
... held by many people that the Governor and nominee is very ably represented here this morning by one of our most brilliant lawyers in the country , the Attorney General of the United States of America . I had not heard - I did not know ...
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... held incommunicado for some time by highway patrolmen . " The point of this story , ' he said , ' is not the fact that one man was kept out of Ole Miss . Rather it shows that we know how to protect your rights NOMINATION OF JAMES P ...
... held incommunicado for some time by highway patrolmen . " The point of this story , ' he said , ' is not the fact that one man was kept out of Ole Miss . Rather it shows that we know how to protect your rights NOMINATION OF JAMES P ...
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... held in Denver , Colo . , June 28 to July 3 , 1965 . The appointment of Governor Coleman as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes as a shock . As Governor of Mississippi he consistently supported racial segregation ...
... held in Denver , Colo . , June 28 to July 3 , 1965 . The appointment of Governor Coleman as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes as a shock . As Governor of Mississippi he consistently supported racial segregation ...
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... held what Governor Coleman said was the meaning of the 14th amendment . Mr. LEWIS . I would like to make it crystal clear to this committee that we reject the argument that Mr. Coleman is the best that Mississippi has to offer . When is ...
... held what Governor Coleman said was the meaning of the 14th amendment . Mr. LEWIS . I would like to make it crystal clear to this committee that we reject the argument that Mr. Coleman is the best that Mississippi has to offer . When is ...
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Page 77 - That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties...
Page 76 - That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 60 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent, as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 77 - ... that to this compact each state acceded, as a state, and is an integral party ; its co-states forming as to itself the other party : that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 81 - ... the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid are unconstitutional ; — and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each for co-operating with this state, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities, rights, and liberties, reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Page 77 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...
Page 77 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 79 - State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 75 - When a State exercises power wholly within the domain of state interest, it is insulated from federal judicial review. But such insulation is not carried over when state power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected right.
Page 59 - Brown was unanimously reached by this Court only after the case had been briefed and twice argued and the issues had been given the most serious consideration. Since the first Brown opinion three new Justices have come to the Court. They are at one with the Justices still on the Court who participated in that basic decision as to its correctness, and that decision is now unanimously reaffirmed. The principles announced in that decision and the obedience of the States to them, according to the command...