Voting Rights Act Extention: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5 ... 91-1, on H.R. 4249, H.R. 5538, and Similar Proposals ... May 14, 15, June 19, 26, July 1, 1969, Serial No. 31969 - 458 páginas |
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15th amendment 1968 presidential election account of race action Alabama application areas Attorney General MITCHELL ballot bill black candidates black voters citizens Commission on Civil committee Congress congressional Constitution declaratory judgment Democratic denied Department of Justice discriminatory District Court District of Columbia effect election officials enactment enforce extend the Voting Federal examiners Federal observers Fifteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Gaston County Georgia GLICKSTEIN Government hearing HULETT illiterates Katzenbach legislation literacy tests Louisiana Lowndes County Macon County McCulloch ment Mississippi Negro registration Negro voters percent persons POFF political subdivision poll watchers primary election problem procedure prohibited proposal provides question race or color racial registered to vote registrar residency right to vote Senate South Carolina STANFORD statement statute subcommittee submitted Supp Supreme Court test or device tests and devices tion United Vicksburg vote on account voter registration voting age Voting Rights Act Washington
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Página 355 - 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.
Página 354 - ... the District Court of the United 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, upon...
Página 165 - Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language...
Página 18 - 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 413 - Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice prohibited by section 203, a...
Página 90 - ... shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who...
Página 416 - Any action under this section shall be heard and determined by a court of three judges in accordance with the provisions of section 2284 of title 28 of the United States Code and any appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court.
Página 12 - States has determined that no such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Página 4 - No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
Página 332 - When a State exercises power wholly within the domain of state interest, it is insulated from federal judicial review. But such insulation is not carried over when state power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected right.