Senator from Illinois. Hearings ... Pursuant to S. Res. 328 ... January 22 and 29, 1927 |
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... Legislature , but does not include a primary election or convention of a political party . Whether that was done in deference to the Newberry decision , which had held there could be no valid legislation in respect to pri- maries , at ...
... Legislature , but does not include a primary election or convention of a political party . Whether that was done in deference to the Newberry decision , which had held there could be no valid legislation in respect to pri- maries , at ...
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... legislature . Otherwise , it has been the policy of this country , never departed from except at a great loss to the country's peace and happiness , to say , we are many States . We have different conditions . We have different ...
... legislature . Otherwise , it has been the policy of this country , never departed from except at a great loss to the country's peace and happiness , to say , we are many States . We have different conditions . We have different ...
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... legislatures to the people , and leave the relations of the Federal Government with the State practically as they ... legislature that elected . It is now the people . Senator SMITH . I ask that question because I was a member of the ...
... legislatures to the people , and leave the relations of the Federal Government with the State practically as they ... legislature that elected . It is now the people . Senator SMITH . I ask that question because I was a member of the ...
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... legislatures of the State . Having given this unlimited and absolute grant of power to choose for themselves the kind of men they would have in the Federal council , then it was suggested , " Well , suppose a State sends a boy here ...
... legislatures of the State . Having given this unlimited and absolute grant of power to choose for themselves the kind of men they would have in the Federal council , then it was suggested , " Well , suppose a State sends a boy here ...
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... legislatures of the States , that they meant , by providing that each House should be the judge of the returns , elections and qualifications of its members , largely to impair , if not to potentially destroy , the power of choice ? Yet ...
... legislatures of the States , that they meant , by providing that each House should be the judge of the returns , elections and qualifications of its members , largely to impair , if not to potentially destroy , the power of choice ? Yet ...
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Page 58 - Each house shall be the judge of the election,, returns, and qualifications of its own members...
Page 24 - expenditure" includes a payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, and includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable, to make an expenditure. (c) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, and any other organization or group of persons.
Page 61 - The qualifications of the elected, being less carefully and properly defined by the State constitutions, and being at the same time more susceptible of uniformity, have been very properly considered and regulated by the Convention. A representative of the United States must be of the age of twentyfive years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must at the time of his election be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent, and during the time of his service must be in no...
Page 45 - States and individual states, as well as between one state and another. Were he to fix the quantum of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the judges, and in like proportion for the members of the national legislature. He would, however, leave the sums blank. His motion was, that the President of the United States, the judges, and members of the legislature...
Page 24 - political committee" includes any committee, association, or organization which accepts contributions or makes expenditures for the purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the election of candidates or presidential...
Page 61 - ... qualifications of property either for those who may elect, or be elected. But this forms no part of the power to be conferred upon the national government. Its authority would be expressly restricted to the regulation of the times, the places, and the manner of elections.
Page 47 - Among the various modes which might have been devised for constituting this branch of the government, that which has been proposed by the convention is probably the most congenial with the public opinion.
Page 47 - In this spirit it may be remarked that the equal vote allowed to each State is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual States, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.
Page 60 - The house of representatives of the freemen of this commonwealth shall consist of persons most noted for wisdom and virtue, to be chosen by the freemen of every city and county of this commonwealth respectively. And no person shall be elected unless he has resided in the city or county for which he shall be chosen two years immediately before the said election; nor shall any member, while he continues such, hold any other office, except in the militia.
Page 45 - States, and the probable difference between the present and future circumstances of the whole, render it improper to have either uniform or fixed qualifications. Make them so high as to be useful in the Southern States, and they will be inapplicable to the Eastern States. Suit them to the latter, and they will serve no purpose in the former. In like manner, what may be accommodated to the existing state of things among us may be very inconvenient in some future state of them.