Congressional Districting: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8953, and Related Proposals ... July 21, 22, 29, 1971

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Počet stran: 243
 

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Strana 176 - 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 8 - (B) Upon the filing of the petition referred to in paragraph (1) , the court shall have jurisdiction to review the rule in accordance with chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code, and to grant appropriate relief as provided in such chapter.
Strana 177 - While it may not be possible to draw congressional districts with mathematical precision, that is no excuse for ignoring our Constitution's plain objective of making equal representation for equal numbers of people the fundamental goal for the House of Representatives.
Strana 9 - Commission may be appointed without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates...
Strana 120 - ... to another county, or city and county, except in cases where one county, or city and county, has more population than the ratio required for one or more Congressmen ; but the Legislature may divide any county, or city and county, into as many congressional districts as it may be entitled to by law. Any county, or city and county, containing a population greater than the number required for one congressional district, shall be formed into one or more congressional districts, according to the population...
Strana 202 - Constitution, which would have been always applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country ; and it will therefore not be denied, that a discretionary power over elections ought to exist somewhere. It will, I presume, be as readily conceded, that there were only three ways in which this power could have been reasonably...
Strana 203 - That, in each state entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such state may be entitled in the 53d and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants.
Strana 186 - ... possessing a freehold of the value of twenty pounds, within the said county, or have rented a tenement therein of the yearly value of forty shillings, and been rated and actually paid taxes to this state...
Strana 202 - Government in the first instance to the local administrations; which in ordinary cases, and when no improper views prevail, may be both more convenient and more satisfactory; but they have reserved to the national authority a right to interpose, whenever extraordinary circumstances might render that interposition necessary to its safety.
Strana 199 - It was found impossible to fix the time, place, and manner, of the election of representatives, in the Constitution. It was found necessary to leave the regulation of these, in the first place, to the state governments, as being best acquainted with the WESBERRY v. SANDERS. 19 situation of the people, subject to the control of the general government, in order to enable it to produce uniformity, and prevent its own dissolution.

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