Hearings, July 19, 1941, March 12-14, July 30, Sept. 22-23, 1942 |
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abolish the poll Alabama American Arkansas attorney average ballot bill BRANT Breedlove candidate Chairman citizens clause committee congressional constitutionality Convention corruption democracy disfranchised exercise fact Federal elections fifteenth amendment fourteenth amendment franchise Georgia Gouverneur Morris Governor holding elections House of Representatives labor legislation legislature Louisiana manner of holding Members of Congress ment Mississippi nineteenth amendment non-poll-tax numerous branch organization paid payment of poll Percent of population persons political poll tax poll-tax receipts poll-tax requirement population voting power of Congress prerequisite for voting prescribe present President primary election privilege of voting protect provisions qualifications of electors qualifications of voters question regulate repeal republican restrictions right of suffrage right to vote Senator NORRIS Senator O'MAHONEY Senator PEPPER South Carolina Southern statement statute subcommittee Supreme Court Tennessee Texas tion Total United United States Constitution United States Senators Virginia Yarbrough
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Page 215 - ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behaviour.
Page 7 - State poll taxes, as hereinafter required, shall be entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and all officers elective by the people...
Page 231 - I am greatly mistaken, notwithstanding, if there be any article in the whole plan more completely defensible than this. Its propriety rests upon the evidence of this plain proposition that every government ought to contain in itself the means of its own preservation.
Page 186 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.
Page 186 - And so if other rights are assailed by the States which properly and necessarily fall within the protection of these articles, that protection will apply, though the party interested may not be of African descent.
Page 236 - ... Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. That this idea was entertained by the framers of the American constitution, is not only to be inferred from the nature of the instrument, but from the language.
Page 235 - ... Nation, on those subjects on which it can act, must necessarily bind its component parts. But this question is not left to mere reason; the people have, in express terms,, decided it by saying, 'this Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof," ''shall be the supreme law of the land...
Page 378 - The government, then, of the United States, can claim, no powers which are not granted to it by the constitution, and -the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page 18 - The provision made by the convention appears, therefore, to be the best that lay within their option. It must be satisfactory to every State, because it is comformable to the standard already established, or which may be established, by the State itself. It will be safe to the United States, because, being fixed by the State constitutions, it is not alterable by the State governments, and it cannot be feared that the people of the States will alter this part of their constitutions in such a manner...
Page 235 - ... action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers are delegated by all; it represents all and acts for all. Though any one state may be willing to control its operations, no state is willing to allow others to control them.