Statehood Initiative: Hearing and Markup Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventy Congress, First Session, on H. Con. Res. 75 ... March 4, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 197 halaman |
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Halaman 196 - ... A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided...
Halaman 195 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Halaman 134 - ... 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...
Halaman 134 - ... councils an imputation of awe or influence equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the confederacy. This consideration has the more weight as the gradual accumulation of public improvements at the stationary residence of the government would be both too great a public pledge to be left in the hands of a single State, and would create so many obstacles to a removal of the government as still further to abridge its necessary independence.
Halaman 149 - No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.
Halaman 134 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrupted with impunity, but a dependence of the members of the general government on the state comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might...
Halaman 191 - ... (two-thirds of each House concurring therein). That The following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress: "Article "Section 1.
Halaman 159 - State, at such time as the convention may provide, make, and ratify the change aforesaid, and properly certify the same under the hand of the president of the convention, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to issue his proclamation stating the fact, and thereupon this act shall take effect and be in force from and after sixty days from the date of said proclamation.
Halaman 157 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled " an act relating to the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent state...
Halaman 155 - received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the United States." CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...