Limiting Right to Vote to Citizens of the United States: Hearing ... on H.J. Res. 270 ... Apr. 26, 1918

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Page 3 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution: "Article —. "SECTION 1.
Page 6 - Congress in the exercise of this power constitute the only rule by which a foreign subject may become a citizen of the United States or of a State within the meaning of the Federal Constitution and laws. It is not in the power of a State to denationalize a foreign subject who has not complied with the Federal naturalization laws, and constitute him a citizen of the United States or of a State, so as to deprive the Federal courts of jurisdiction over a controversy between him and a citizen of a State,...
Page 5 - several times voted at elections held in that state where the constituticn of the state authorizes such residents to do so without naturalization, but had never applied to be or been admitted to citizenship under the federal naturalization laws, was still an alien, and a subject of the grand duke of Mecklenburg. This decision has been followed by the courts, and acquiesced in by the profession. It is now vigorously challenged by counsel for plaintiff in error. Section 2, art. 3, of the constitution...
Page 5 - Lanz v. Randall, 4 Dill. 425, Mr. Justice Miller, who was then presiding in the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota, held that a State could not make the subject of a foreign government a citizen of the United States, and that a resident of Minnesota who was born a subject of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, had declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States many years before he brought his suit, had resided in the State of Minnesota for...
Page 6 - Indeed, as the suffrage would seem peculiarly to belong to citizens, and as the voter for representatives in the State legislature may vote for representatives in congress also, it would seem that there might be some question whether a State could confer upon an alien this high privilege. It is a question, however, which has never been made.
Page 3 - Joint Resolution. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 5 - [t]he judicial Power shall extend to all Cases . . . affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; — to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; — to Controversies . . . between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
Page 3 - ... or hereafter may be elected by the people and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people: provided, however, that no person who shall attain the age of twenty-one years after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred, or after that date shall become a citizen of the United States, shall have the right to vote unless he shall be able to read this Constitution in the English language and write his name...
Page 5 - States, or under any provisions of the acts of congress. The state of Minnesota has conferred upon all foreign subjects resident within Its borders who have declared their intention to become citizens the elective franchise, the privilege of holding any oltiee within its gift, and practically all of the privileges of citizenship In the power of that state to confer. In November, 1800, the plain tin.
Page 5 - ... Revised Statutes of the United States, or under any provisions of the acts of Congress. The State of Minnesota has conferred upon all foreign subjects resident within its borders, who have declared their intention to become citizens, the elective franchise, the privilege of holding any office within its gift, and practically all of the privileges of citizenship in the power of that State to confer.

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