 | United States - 1922 - 740 pages
...proposes is equitable in itself and compulsory in accordance with American principles and traditions. It gives to residents of the District rights and privileges...power in the national councils which is denied to the resident of no other community in all of the mainland and contiguous United States from Maine to Texas... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 240 pages
...according to American principles and traditions. It gives to residents of the Nation's Capital those rights and privileges which, under our scheme of government, belong to all who pay national taxes and lay down their lives in defense of the country. Granted national representation. Washington will lose... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on a Judiciary - 1941 - 332 pages
...proposes is equitable in itself and compulsory in accordance with American principles and traditions. It gives to residents of the District rights and privileges...to all who pay national taxes and fight as national soldiersIt gives to residents of the District a self-protecting power in the national councils which... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutional amendments - 1960 - 192 pages
...proposes is equitable in itself and compulsory hi accordance with American principles and traditions. It gives to residents of the District rights and privileges...power in the national councils which is denied to the resident of no other community in all of the mainland and contiguous United States from Maine to Texas... | |
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... American with a badge of honor and arms him with power. Its lack slurs the Washingtonian as unfit and defective, and slurs the Nation as in this respect un-American and impotent. What the amendment proposes is equitable in itself and compulsory in... 