Extension of the Voting Rights Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 1625 páginas |
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15th Amendment Alabama areas at-large elections Attorney BADILLO ballot ban on literacy Bexar County black elected officials black population black registration black voters BUTLER Census Chairman Civil Rights Commission on Civil committee Congress congressional constitutional County covered jurisdictions Department of Justice discrimination discriminatory District Court DRINAN EDWARDS effect electoral enacted enforcement English extension Federal examiners FLEMMING Georgia gerrymandering jurisdictions covered KLEE KORBEL legislation legislature literacy tests Louisiana majority Mexican Americans minority citizens Minority voters Mississippi multimember Native Americans number of black percent black permanent ban persons political participation political process polling places POTTINGER preclearance problem proposed provisions Puerto Ricans question race or color racial reapportionment redistricting requirements right to vote RODINO SILLAS South Carolina Spanish Spanish-speaking statement subcommittee submission Supreme Court test or device testimony tests and devices Texas Thank tion U.S. Commission Voter Education Project voting age voting age population Voting Rights Act
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Página 256 - That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission...
Página 859 - Company had adopted the diploma and test requirements without any "intention to discriminate against Negro employees." We do not suggest that either the District Court or the Court of Appeals erred in examining the employer's intent; but good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as "built-in headwinds" for minority groups and are unrelated to measuring job capability.
Página 623 - Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.
Página 256 - ... voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting...
Página 256 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Página 749 - ... fifteenth amendment), the appointment of examiners is otherwise necessary to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth amendment, the Civil Service Commission shall appoint as many examiners for such subdivision as it may deem appropriate to prepare and maintain lists of persons eligible to vote in Federal, State, and local elections.
Página 253 - English language, and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has...
Página 187 - ... 51.18. (c) The 60-day period shall mean 60 calendar days, provided that if the final day of the period should fall on a Saturday, Sunday, or national holiday the Attorney General shall have until the close of the next full business day in which to interpose an objection. The date of the Attorney General's response shall be the date on which it is mailed to the submitting authority. (d) When the Attorney General objects to a submitted change affecting voting, and the submitting authority seeking...
Página 265 - District Court for the District of Columbia that the new proposed laws do not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying the right to vote to citizens on account of their race or color.
Página 189 - State legislature, ordinance of city council, redistricting by election officials). (4) An explanation of the difference between the submitted change affecting voting and the existing law or practice, or explanatory materials adequate to disclose to the Attorney General the difference between the existing and proposed situation with respect to voting. When the change will affect less than the whole State or subdivision, such explanation should include a description of which subdivisions or parts...