Federal Election Reform Proposals of 1977: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Počet stran: 1208 |
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Strana 542 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Strana 214 - Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.
Strana 398 - Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. In such a country as this, they are of all bad things the worst, worse by far than anywhere else ; and they derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the rest of our institutions. For very obvious reasons you cannot trust the crown with a dispensing power over any of your laws. However, a government, be it as bad as it may, will, in the exercise of a discretionary power, discriminate times and persons ; and will not ordinarily...
Strana 768 - 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.
Strana 345 - Amendment, which was designed ,to secure the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources<, and ,to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people<. The First Amendment's protection against governmental abridgement of free expression cannot properly be made to depend on a person's financial ability to engage in public discussion.
Strana 228 - Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress of the United States, whether or not such individual is elected ; (c) The term "political committee...
Strana 654 - You do swear that you are a citizen of the United States, that you are twenty-one years of age, that you have resided in this State...
Strana 336 - The constitutional safeguard, we have said, "was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people.
Strana 229 - Commission by this title shall be filed with the Secretary of State (or, if there is no office of Secretary of State, the equivalent State officer) of the appropriate State. For purposes of this subsection, the term "appropriate State...
Strana 345 - But the concept that government may restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others is wholly foreign to the First Amendment...