 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 240 pages
...lack of national representation by the suggestion that in voting for the cession "they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them." This suggestion applies, however, only to the original inhabitants of the 10 miles square who voted... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary - 1938 - 162 pages
...sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession ; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own suffrages, would, of course,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on a Judiciary - 1941 - 332 pages
...sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession ; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government, which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1945 - 1162 pages
...Capital City of home rule. "Its inhabitants," wrote James Madison in the Federalist (No. 43), "will have their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them," and "a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Election law - 1945 - 68 pages
...sufficiently circumscribed to satisfy every Jealousy of an opposite nature * * * as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own sufferages will, of course,... | |
 | United States. Congress Organization of Joint Committee - 1946 - 1286 pages
...sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived "from their own suffrages, will of course be... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1947 - 646 pages
...Capital City of home rule. "Its inhabitants," wrote James Madison in the Federalist (No. 43), "will have their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them," and "a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. District of Columbia - 1949 - 464 pages
...would have the right to vote for Members of Congress. For he assured the inhabitants that they would "have their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them * * *." The Government to which he referred in this clause must have been the Congress of the United... | |
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... they will have had their voice in the election of the government -which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own suffrages will of course be allowed them... 
