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... court de- cisions so restricts it . The only interpretation this phrase has ever had deals with elections . The jurisdiction which the House Administration Committee does have is broad with regard to the expenditure of House funds , and ...
... court de- cisions so restricts it . The only interpretation this phrase has ever had deals with elections . The jurisdiction which the House Administration Committee does have is broad with regard to the expenditure of House funds , and ...
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... courts if they were wrong . I think it would be very difficult to draw a code of ethics which would be meaningful and helpful in the field of general House be- havior , but that is not to say it cannot be done . I think it can be done ...
... courts if they were wrong . I think it would be very difficult to draw a code of ethics which would be meaningful and helpful in the field of general House be- havior , but that is not to say it cannot be done . I think it can be done ...
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... courts in his own area ? Do you think that would have been a matter for this committee ? Mr. BENNETT . No. The law constituting the committee would pro- hibit it . Mr. O'NEILL . You have no idea of changing the basic concepts of the ...
... courts in his own area ? Do you think that would have been a matter for this committee ? Mr. BENNETT . No. The law constituting the committee would pro- hibit it . Mr. O'NEILL . You have no idea of changing the basic concepts of the ...
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... courts and prosecuting authorities , and that was what was recommended by the joint committee . However , the Senate committee is much broader . It does not re- strict itself that way . I think there is a value even as suggested by Mr ...
... courts and prosecuting authorities , and that was what was recommended by the joint committee . However , the Senate committee is much broader . It does not re- strict itself that way . I think there is a value even as suggested by Mr ...
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... court . For some preliminary body to half - judge him , it seems to me , is rather questionable . It seems to me he has his rights under the courts . I doubt that would be a sound thing to do . Mr. MATSUNAGA . By recommendation , Mr ...
... court . For some preliminary body to half - judge him , it seems to me , is rather questionable . It seems to me he has his rights under the courts . I doubt that would be a sound thing to do . Mr. MATSUNAGA . By recommendation , Mr ...
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Page 62 - In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against state aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by state authority in the shape of laws, customs or judicial or executive proceedings.
Page 64 - ... or because he had some personal difference with him, political, racial, or social. That was purely his own affair, with which nobody else had any concern. Neither the Sherman Act, nor any decision of the Supreme Court construing the same, nor the Clayton Act, has changed the law in this particular. We have not yet reached the stage where the selection of a trader's customers is made for him by the government.
Page 5 - What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget— is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
Page 20 - Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
Page 31 - Conduct, and violations of rules and regulations of the Senate, relating to the conduct of individuals in the performance of their duties as Members of the Senate, or as officers or employees of the Senate, and to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions with respect thereto...
Page 48 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall — (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances; (2) violate the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizures, nor issue warrants...
Page 62 - It is, of course, state action that is prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment, not the actions of individuals. So far as the Fourteenth Amendment is concerned, individuals can be as prejudiced and intolerant as they like. They may as a consequence subject themselves to suits for assault, battery, or trespass. But those actions have no footing in the Federal Constitution. The line of forbidden conduct marked by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is...
Page 7 - House, of any law applicable to the performance of his duties or the discharge of his responsibilities, which may have been disclosed in a committee investigation...
Page 64 - It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice, or malice.
Page 65 - ... which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute...