Ex-offenders Voting Rights: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9020 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - Počet stran: 122 |
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Strana 118 - Congress declares that the constitutional right of citizens to vote is denied or abridged in some areas by the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting. (b) In the exercise of the powers of Congress...
Strana 58 - Therefore, if a challenged state statute grants the right to vote to some bona fide residents of requisite age and citizenship and denies the franchise to others, the Court must determine whether the exclusions are necessary to promote a compelling state interest.
Strana 115 - Study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution...
Strana 7 - Restrained by the federal Constitution from discriminating against the negro race, the convention discriminated against its characteristics and the offenses to which its weaker members were prone.
Strana 11 - States, twenty-one years old and upwards, who has resided in this state for two years, and one year in the election district, or in the incorporated city or town in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered, as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, or bigamy and who...
Strana 79 - Code takes the position that a "person who is convicted of a crime shall be disqualified from voting in a primary or election if and only so long as he is committed under a sentence of imprisonment.
Strana 57 - 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 91 - Persons convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, wife-beating, house-breaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or crimes against the election laws: Pro ruled, That the pardon of the Governor shall remove such disqualification.
Strana 106 - A person confined under a sentence of imprisonment shall have the same right to appoint an agent, attorney in-fact or trustee to act in his behalf with respect to his property or economic interests as if he were not so confined. (2) Upon the application of a person confined or about to be confined under a sentence of imprisonment, the Court [insert appropriate court of record] of the county where the prisoner resided at the time of sentence or where the sentence was imposed may appoint a trustee...
Strana 58 - ... committed it may reasonably be deemed to constitute a threat to the integrity of the elective process.