Voting Representation in Congress for Citizens of the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, May 23, 2002, Τόμος 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 234 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 113 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Σελίδα 78 - 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.
Σελίδα 103 - we the people" under the Constitution visualizes no preferred class of voters but equality among those who meet the basic qualifications.26 The Gray opinion ended with the strong statement that "[t]he conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing — one person, one...
Σελίδα 78 - What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER...
Σελίδα 186 - The good sought in unconstitutional legislation is an insidious feature because it leads citizens and legislators of good purpose to promote it without thought of the serious breach it will make in the ark of our covenant or the harm which will come from breaking down recognized standards.
Σελίδα 92 - There is certainly no power given by the Constitution to the Federal Government to establish or maintain colonies bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by the admission of new States.
Σελίδα 93 - The power to expand the territory of the United States by the admission of new States is plainly given ; and in the construction of this power by all the departments of the Government...
Σελίδα 168 - The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State.
Σελίδα 118 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 102 - It is undoubtedly true that the District of Columbia is a separate political community in a certain sense, and in that sense may be called a State : but the sovereign power of this qualified State is not lodged in the corporation 'of the District of Columbia, but in the government of the United States. Its supreme legislative body is Congress. The subordinate legislative powers of a municipal character which have been or may be lodged in the city corporations, or in the District corporation, do not...