Census Equity Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2661 ... August 1 and September 7, 1989U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 209 páginas |
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... apportionment base , choosing as it did to apportion Congress according to the whole number of persons in each State and exclud- ing once again Indians not taxed . The language used in both Arti- cle I and the 14th amendment simply is ...
... apportionment base , choosing as it did to apportion Congress according to the whole number of persons in each State and exclud- ing once again Indians not taxed . The language used in both Arti- cle I and the 14th amendment simply is ...
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... apportionment purposes . I am pleased to hold this hearing today because I really have the utmost respect for the opinions ... apportion- ment base . I clearly appreciate Under Secretary Darby's effort to ensure that requirements are not ...
... apportionment purposes . I am pleased to hold this hearing today because I really have the utmost respect for the opinions ... apportion- ment base . I clearly appreciate Under Secretary Darby's effort to ensure that requirements are not ...
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... apportionment purposes . The original language adopted by the Constitutional Convention for Article I , section 2 ... apportionment . Instead they specifically selected the word " persons " . Further , the history of our country is ...
... apportionment purposes . The original language adopted by the Constitutional Convention for Article I , section 2 ... apportionment . Instead they specifically selected the word " persons " . Further , the history of our country is ...
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... apportioning congressional seats while , at the same time , excluding members of the armed forces , Defense ... apportionment purposes , the nation is granting representation in Congress to individuals who have entered this country by ...
... apportioning congressional seats while , at the same time , excluding members of the armed forces , Defense ... apportionment purposes , the nation is granting representation in Congress to individuals who have entered this country by ...
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... apportionment base because the very concept did not exist at the time the Constitution was drafted . Would you have any comment to make on that ? Mr. EDWARDS . I would disagree with the excellent statement of our colleague , Mr ...
... apportionment base because the very concept did not exist at the time the Constitution was drafted . Would you have any comment to make on that ? Mr. EDWARDS . I would disagree with the excellent statement of our colleague , Mr ...
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14th amendment 39th Congress apportionment base apportionment clause apportionment counts apportionment purposes Article bill BYER Census and Population Census Bureau Chairman citizens citizenship Committee Cong CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY DEBRUIN decennial census Department dilute DYMALLY enumeration equal protection clauses estimate exclude illegal aliens exclude undocumented residents Federal Fourteenth Amendment Framers GOODLING Hispanic House of Representatives immigration status included inclusion of illegal Indians not taxed intent interpretation issue Jenner & Block KINCANNON large numbers Latino legal aliens legal residents legal status legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MALDEF ment million NALEO number of persons number of voters overseas military plaintiffs Plyler political proposed purpose of apportionment question reapportionment respective numbers RIDGE SAWYER SIEGEL slaves statement suffrage Supreme Court term persons Thank tion unconstitutional undercount undocumented aliens undocumented immigrants United usual residence VARGAS vote Wesberry whole number word persons
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Página 137 - Resolved, therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Página 87 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Página 147 - 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.
Página 129 - ... in the Constitution, and can, therefore, claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.
Página 121 - by the People of the several States" means that as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.
Página 50 - The debates at the Convention make at least one fact abundantly clear: that when the delegates agreed that the House should represent 'people' they intended that in allocating Congressmen the number assigned to each State should be determined solely by the number of the State's inhabitants. The Constitution embodied Edmund Randolph's proposal for a periodic census to ensure 'fair representation of the people...
Página 135 - Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation ; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons, not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each state.
Página 129 - And for the same reason it cannot introduce any person, or description of persons, who were not intended to be embraced in this new political family, which the Constitution brought into existence, but were intended to be excluded from it.
Página 138 - That every person whose usual place of abode shall be in any family on the aforesaid first Monday in August next shall be returned as of such family...
Página 129 - It is very clear, therefore, that no State can, by any act or law of its own, passed since the adoption of the Constitution, introduce a new member into the political community created by the Constitution of the United States.