National Representation for the District of Columbia: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 136, a Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Empowering Congress to Grant Representation in the House of Represtatives and in the Electoral College to the District of Columbia. May 20, 1954United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 65 sider |
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67th Congress believe board of trade Central Suffrage Conference Chairman Citizens Associations COLLADAY Congress to grant constitutional amendment DAVID DARRIN democracy Democratic denied District of Columbia electoral college electors of President empowering Congress Federal city Federation of Citizens Federation of Women's feel full national representation full representation give grant representation gress hearing Home Rule Committee House of Representatives Houses of Congress John Hammond John Latimer Joint Resolution 136 Judiciary Committee KAUFMAN laws League of Women LEEMAN legislation legislatures McKELWAY ment National Capital national suffrage national taxes North Dakota Noyes organization population power to provide President and Vice President members elected privileges proposed amendment ratification representation in Congress S. J. Res seat of government self-government Senate Joint Resolution Senator Case's SMITHEY statement subcommittee SUTER Thank Theodore W tion tive United States Senate Vice President members Washington Board Washington Home Rule WILLIAM LANGER Women Voters Women's Clubs
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Side 26 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just ; And this be our motto :
Side 19 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings...
Side 19 - ... dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy. This consideration has the more weight, as the gradual accumulation of public improvements at the stationary residence of the government would be both too great a public pledge to be left in the hands of a single State, and would create so many obstacles to a removal of the government, as still further to abridge its necessary independence.
Side 20 - ... had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them ; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated.
Side 30 - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Side 38 - The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District constituting the seat of the Government of the United States...
Side 19 - Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrupted with impunity ; but a dependence of the members of the General Government on the State comprehending the seat of the Government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the National Councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the Government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.
Side 64 - I wish to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear before it on this important issue, and will be happy to answer any questions which the committee may have.
Side 29 - ... they will have had their voice in the election of the government -which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own suffrages will of course be allowed them...
Side 37 - RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following section be submitted to the legislatures of the several states, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, shall be valid and binding, as a part of the constitution of the United States.