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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... U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1990 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents , Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office , Washington , DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE WILLIAM D. FORD.
... U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1990 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents , Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office , Washington , DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE WILLIAM D. FORD.
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... congressional seats for any State is a frightening one for Members of Congress . However , it is clearly important that we not let this fear cloud our judgment or interfere with our duty to uphold the Constitution . With that ...
... congressional seats for any State is a frightening one for Members of Congress . However , it is clearly important that we not let this fear cloud our judgment or interfere with our duty to uphold the Constitution . With that ...
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... congressional seats while , at the same time , excluding members of the armed forces , Defense Department civilian personnel , and their dependents , who happen to be overseas at the time of the census . This policy is wrong and should ...
... congressional seats while , at the same time , excluding members of the armed forces , Defense Department civilian personnel , and their dependents , who happen to be overseas at the time of the census . This policy is wrong and should ...
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... Congressional Hispanic Caucus . Congressman , we are glad you are able to be with us . STATEMENT OF HON . ALBERT G. BUSTAMANTE , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS Mr. BUSTAMANTE . Chairman Sawyer , thank you so much ...
... Congressional Hispanic Caucus . Congressman , we are glad you are able to be with us . STATEMENT OF HON . ALBERT G. BUSTAMANTE , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS Mr. BUSTAMANTE . Chairman Sawyer , thank you so much ...
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... congressional seats based on citizenship or voters . Cong . Globe , 39th Cong . , 1st Sess . 359 ( 1866 ) . Congress has also consistently rejected legislative proposals to exclude persons not specifically identified in the Constitution ...
... congressional seats based on citizenship or voters . Cong . Globe , 39th Cong . , 1st Sess . 359 ( 1866 ) . Congress has also consistently rejected legislative proposals to exclude persons not specifically identified in the Constitution ...
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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.