Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session |
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14th amendment adopted apportioned approved assembly Baker basic basis of population believe bicameral legislature bill BIRCH BAYH California Carr Chairman citizens Colorado committee Congress constitutional amendment constitutional convention democratic Dirksen election electorate equal protection clause equal representation fact factors favor Federal courts going Governor HANSON House of Representatives interests issue Joint Resolution judicial review jurisdiction Justice lature legis legislative apportionment majority malapportioned malapportionment matter McKAY ment minority Nation one-man one-man-one-vote one-vote opinion percent permit political population basis principle problem proposed amendment question ratified reapportion reapportionment reason referendum repre republican Reynolds rule S.J. Res Senator BAYH Senator DOUGLAS Senator HAWBAKER Senator HRUSKA Senator ROGERS Senator TYDINGS Sims statement stitutional subcommittee submitted Supreme Court decision Thank tion tionment U.S. Constitution U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court unicameral United urban vote voters York
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Page 74 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 554 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as Short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Page 73 - The legislatures of those districts or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled...
Page 370 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 74 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 553 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results ; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society...
Page 73 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to Congress, who shall have a seat in Congress, with a right of debating but not of voting during this temporary government.
Page 74 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 554 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 71 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district...