Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session

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Bayh Hon Birch a U S Senator from the State of Indiana chairman
187
King Hon Carleton Jr a Member of the House of Representatives from
299
Brown Hon Edmund G Governor of the State of California presented
383
Campbell Dudley T secretary American National Cattlemens Associa
415
Carlson Hon Frank a U S Senator from the State of Kansas 619
419
Colman William G Executive Director Advisory Commission
469
Carosell Philip J attorney at law Denver Colo 961
485
Daley Hon Richard A mayor of Chicago 277
575
Dominick Hon Peter H a U S Senator from the State of Colorado__ 12
684
Chaffee Hon John H Governor of the State of Rhode Island 351
697
Jacobs Hon Andrew Jr a Member of the House of Representatives from
699
Jacobs Joseph C special counsel to the Florida State Senate 511
775
Douglas Hon Paul a U S Senator from the State of Illinois_ 35
784
Kleiman Bernard attorney at law from Chicago Ill 936
813
Morris Earl F American Bar Association___ 357
865
Rattigan Hon Joseph A a Member of the State Senate of California__ 387
874
Flynn Prof John J College of Law University of Utah
880
Rogers Hon Cleeta John a Member of the State Senate of Oklahoma___ 218
903
Graham Hon Thomas D speaker of the Missouri House of Representa
920
Kleiman Bernard attorney at law from Chicago Ill
936
Active Voters on Antireapportionment Constitutional Amendment
949
Ladd Dr Edward T president American Civil Liberties Union
951
American Veterans Committee Inc
957
Citizens Congressional Committee
963
Driscoll J W attorney at law Clayton Mo
969
Fannin Hon Paul a U S Senator from the State of Arizona 187
975
Hahn Dr Harlan research associate School of Public Health University
981
Moore Hon Dan Governor of the State of North Carolina 352
983
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives__
989
Barton Hon John J mayor of Indianapolis Ind 695
994
Swindler William F professor of law College of William and Mary
995
YWCA National Board
1018
Sims 377 U S 533 1964
1025
Alabama
1126
Alaska
1127
Arizona
1132
Arkansas
1134
California
1136

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Page 557 - 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 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 558 - 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 557 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
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, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
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 72 - The general assembly, or legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be...
Page 72 - ... for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Page 558 - 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 558 - I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

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