Apportionment of Representatives ...: Report. To Accompany H.R. 30566U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - 73 páginas |
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Página 171 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, hoicever, 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 the right to vote...
Página 183 - ... in the appropriate margin or place a cross (X) opposite the name of the candidate of his choice for each office to be filled...
Página 32 - Houses thereof, shall ask, accept, or receive, any money, or any contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value...
Página 92 - Congress shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress, no district electing more than one Representative.
Página 35 - Mitchell, director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Página 81 - Within the tield of permissible action under the limitations imposed by the Federal Constitution, the convention swept the field of expedients, to obstruct the exercise of suffrage by the negro race.
Página 172 - ... male person who was, on January 1, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualifications herein prescribed: Provided, he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to December i, 1908. The General Assembly...
Página 82 - ... residence in the election district, if otherwise qualified." Section 242. The legislature shall provide by law for the registration of all persons entitled to vote at any election, and all persons offering to register shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am twenty-one years old (or I...
Página 100 - ... 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state.
Página 172 - Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language.