Voting Rights Extension Act of 1993: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 174 ... March 18, 1993Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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Page 66 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 67 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people ; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 66 - All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.
Page 18 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Page 13 - ... effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color." 42 USC § 1973c [42 USCS § 1973c]. We have explained that "the purpose of § 5 has always been to insure that no voting-procedure changes would be made that would lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise.
Page 7 - Before the Subcomm. on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 103d Cong.
Page 15 - Cooper, and I am a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. I welcome this opportunity to present my views on HR 174, the "Voting Rights Extension Act of 1993;" in so doing, I speak only for myself.
Page 17 - Court concluded from its review of the history that § 5 was "intended to reach any state enactment which altered the election law of a covered State in even a minor way.
Page 7 - See Hearings on HR 6400 before Subcommittee No. 5 of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Cong., 1st Sess.
Page 12 - After enduring nearly a century of systematic resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment, Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of the evil to its victims.