Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United State Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 480, S. 2750, and 2979 |
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... Lassiter v . Northampton County Board of Elections , supra , to affirm the principle that the application of a literacy test by a State as a qualification for voting is consistent with State power under the 14th and 17th amendments if ...
... Lassiter v . Northampton County Board of Elections , supra , to affirm the principle that the application of a literacy test by a State as a qualification for voting is consistent with State power under the 14th and 17th amendments if ...
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... ( Lassiter v . Northampton Election Board , 360 U.S. 45 , 53 ( 1959 ) and Breedlove v . Suttles , 302 U.S. 277 , 283 ( 1937 ) ) . I will not go into all these cases with the committee , which is well able to study them itself , except to ...
... ( Lassiter v . Northampton Election Board , 360 U.S. 45 , 53 ( 1959 ) and Breedlove v . Suttles , 302 U.S. 277 , 283 ( 1937 ) ) . I will not go into all these cases with the committee , which is well able to study them itself , except to ...
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... Lassiter case , that under the 15th amendment the Congress has the power to look and to legislate behind a literacy test which may be fair on its face . So that while I respect the professor's views , this is a view with which I don't ...
... Lassiter case , that under the 15th amendment the Congress has the power to look and to legislate behind a literacy test which may be fair on its face . So that while I respect the professor's views , this is a view with which I don't ...
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... Lassiter v . Northampton Election Board , 360 U.S. 45 , 53 , 1959 , to establish the proposition that the section which the Senator has read does not stand by itself but must be read with the 15th amendment to the Constitution . Senator ...
... Lassiter v . Northampton Election Board , 360 U.S. 45 , 53 , 1959 , to establish the proposition that the section which the Senator has read does not stand by itself but must be read with the 15th amendment to the Constitution . Senator ...
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... Lassiter v . North- ampton Board of Elections , 360 U.S. 45. And in that case , it held that the literacy test statutes have been upheld all the way through . Senator JAVITS . I have just referred to that case as a basis for the ...
... Lassiter v . North- ampton Board of Elections , 360 U.S. 45. And in that case , it held that the literacy test statutes have been upheld all the way through . Senator JAVITS . I have just referred to that case as a basis for the ...
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Page 427 - 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.
Page 686 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 678 - States for the District of Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business...
Page 688 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 206 - All citizens of the United States, who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any state, territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, any constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any state or territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 510 - ... otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race color or previous condition of servitude; any Constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any State or Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 140 - Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 678 - Board shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the Board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.
Page 685 - Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice which would deprive any other person...
Page 676 - The Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman in the absence or disability of the Chairman or in the event of a vacancy in that office.