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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14th amendment 39th Congress apportionment base apportionment clause apportionment counts apportionment purposes argument Article bill BYER Census and Population Census Bureau Chairman citizens citizenship Committee Cong Congress Constitution requires 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 Reform 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 MALDEF ment million NALEO number of persons number of voters overseas military plaintiffs Plyler political proposed purpose of apportionment question reapportionment record respective numbers RIDGE SAWYER SIEGEL slaves statement suffrage Supreme Court term persons testimony Thank tion U.S. Const unconstitutional undercount undocumented aliens undocumented immigrants United usual residence VARGAS vote Wesberry whole number word persons
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Página 87 - declared: [T]he 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; and ... in ... recognition of this principle this government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and
Página 135 - that representation in the House should be "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 three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes in each State.
Página 129 - are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' 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
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 135 - white and other free Citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes in each State.
Página 90 - (a) any alien in the United States (including an alien crewman) shall, upon the order of the Attorney General, be deported, who— (1) at the time of entry was within one or more of the classes of aliens excluded by
Página 79 - It is pertinent to observe that any policy towards aliens is vitally and intricately interwoven with contemporaneous policies in regard to the conduct of foreign relations, the war power, and the maintenance of a republican form of government. Such matters are so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference.
Página 148 - The Court continued: •Wesberry clearly established that the fundamental principle of representative government in this country is one of equal representation for equal numbers of people, without regard to race, sex, economic status, or place of residence within a state." Id. at 560 (emphasis supplied).
Página 140 - Madison, in his notes of the Convention, recorded the following entry after the "three-fifths" compromise was proposed: Mr. Gerry thought property not the rule of representation. Why then shd. the blacks, who were property in the South, be in the rule of representation more than the cattle & horses of the North. 1
Página 203 - To say that a vote is worth more in one district than another would not only run counter to our fundamental ideas of democratic government, it would cast aside the principles of a House of Representatives elected by "the People," a principle tenaciously fought for and established at the Constitutional Convention.