Overseas absentee voting: hearing before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on the Overseas citizens voting rights act of 1975, the Federal voting assistance act of 1965, and S. 703 ... March 8, 1977

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Počet stran: 298
 

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Strana 52 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Strana 58 - If the end be legitimate and within the scope of the constitution, all the means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, and which are not prohibited, may constitutionally be employed to carry it into effect.
Strana 89 - If this government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other States and governments, each of which is superior to the General Government, it must have the power to protect the elections on which its existence depends from violence and corruption.
Strana 94 - Whatever legislation is appropriate, that is, adapted to carry out the objects the amendments have in view, whatever tends to enforce submission to the prohibitions they contain, and to secure to all persons the enjoyment of perfect equality of civil rights and the equal protection of the laws against state denial or invasion, if not prohibited, is brought within the domain of congressional power.
Strana 57 - This proposition answers, also, another objection to the constitutionality of the laws under consideration, namely, that the right to vote for a member of Congress is not dependent upon the Constitution or laws of the United States, but is governed by the law of each state respectively.
Strana 178 - States in all categories serving outside the territorial limits of the several states of the United States and the District of Columbia and their spouses and dependents when residing with or accompanying them...
Strana 58 - Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was a part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country, . . . may be as close to the heart of the Opinion of the Court, 378 US individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values.
Strana 97 - Correctly viewed, § 5 is a positive grant of legislative power authorizing Congress to exercise its discretion in determining whether and what legislation is needed to secure the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Strana 27 - States in all categories serving outside the United States and the District of Columbia and their spouses and dependents when residing with or accompanying them, whether or not the...
Strana 178 - All mail matter of whatever class, relating to naturalization, including duplicate papers required by law or regulation to be sent to the Service by clerks of courts addressed to the Department of Justice or the Service, or any official thereof, and endorsed "Official Business...

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