Anti-poll-tax Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Election of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 29, H.R. 7, H.R. 66, H.R. 225, H.R. 230, H.R. 668, H.R. 1435, and H.R. 4040 Bills 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. July 1,2,3,7,8,10,11,14, and 15, 1947Considers (80) H.R. 29, (80) H.R. 7, (80) H.R. 66, (80) H.R. 225, (80) H.R. 230, (80) H.R. 668, (80) H.R. 1435, (80) H.R. 4040. |
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Page 187 - And this primary injunction : "The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at Home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity
Page 188 - Let us press forward toward our glorious destiny in unity, "discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest,
Page 185 - Export Corp. et al. (299 US 304, 315) says: "The broad statement that the Federal Government can exercise no powers except those specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and such implied powers as are necessary and proper to carry into effect the enumerated powers, is categorically true only in respect of our
Page 187 - every shape, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as It is easy to foresee that from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken,'many artifices employed, to weaken
Page 213 - Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor ; not the learned more than the ignorant ; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of people of the United States—
Page 185 - the Constitution was to carve from the general mass of legislative powers then possessed by the States such portions as it was thought desirable to vest in the Federal Government, leaving those not included in the enumeration still in the States." There never has been a Federal election held nor a Federal
Page 5 - governmental subdivision to interfere with the manner of selecting persons for national office by requiring the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting or registering to vote in any primary or other election for President, Vice President, electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Member of the House of
Page 95 - in Congress is sometimes spoken of as a right derived from the State * * * this statement Is true only in the sense that the States are authorized by the Constitution to legislate on the subject as provided by section 2 of article I, to the extent that Congress has not restricted State action by the
Page 216 - is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the fourteenth amendment. Privilege of voting is not derived from the United States but is conferred by the State, and save as restrained by the fifteenth and nineteenth amendments, and other provisions of the Federal Constitution, the State may condition suffrage as it deems appropriate. Now,
Page 88 - the United States. Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.