Extension of the Voting Rights Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, May 6, 7, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28, June 3, 5, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, and July 13, 1981, Մաս 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 2813 էջ |
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Էջ 1513 - 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 1483 - Congress hereby declares that to secure the rights under the fourteenth amendment of persons educated in American-flag schools in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, it is necessary to prohibit the States from conditioning the right to vote of such persons on ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language.
Էջ 907 - What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.
Էջ 1753 - Hopefully, millions of non-white Americans will now be able to participate for the first time on an equal basis in the government under which they live.
Էջ 1060 - Chapter 134, submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Էջ 1065 - State legislature, ordinance of city council, redistricting by election officials). (4) An explanation of the difference between the submitted change affecting voting and the existing law or practice, or explanatory materials adequate to disclose to the Attorney General the difference between the existing and proposed situation with respect to voting.
Էջ 1547 - ... required by this act shall be guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall be punished therefor as provided by law.
Էջ 1075 - Columbia that the proposed change has neither the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group.
Էջ 1805 - But past discrimination cannot, in the manner of original sin, condemn governmental action that is not itself unlawful. The ultimate question remains whether a discriminatory intent has been proved in a given case. More distant instances of official discrimination in other cases are of limited help in resolving that question.
Էջ 1123 - General to object does not bar subsequent litigation to enjoin enforcement of -the change. (c) A copy of the notification shall be sent to any party who has commented on the submission or has requested notice of the Attorney General's action thereon.