Voting Rights Act Extension: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4249, H.R. 5538, and Similar Proposals ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 458 էջ |
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Էջ 342 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Էջ 362 - ... the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, upon...
Էջ 26 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Էջ 357 - ... voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting...
Էջ 109 - To assure that the right of citizens of the United States to vote is not denied or abridged on account of race or color, no citizen shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his failure to comply with any test or device...
Էջ 166 - Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language...
Էջ 12 - 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.
Էջ 340 - When a State exercises power wholly within the domain of state interest, it is insulated from federal judicial review. But such insulation is not carried over when state power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected right.
Էջ 98 - ... shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who...
Էջ 89 - Constitution, which says that no person shall be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.