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1st sess 39th Cong 3d sess 40th Cong 41st Cong abridged account of race acts of private adoption Appendix appropriate legislation authority autonomists bill Blaine amendment Circuit Court Committee condition of servitude confer decision declared denial denied discrimination disfranchisement District elector enacted enforcement section evils excluded exercise February 27 federal Fifteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment framers Globe ground Hamilton of Maryland held Hence House Journal Howard of Michigan humanitarians ibid Indiana indicted legislature ment nationalistic negro suffrage North Carolina object Ohio opinion passed persons political politicians power of Congress prevent previous condition principle private individuals prohibition proposed proposition protect punish qualifications question race or color ratified refusal rejected Republican right of suffrage right to vote Robert Dale Owen second section Senate Journal suffrage amendment Supreme Court Thaddeus Stevens tion United universal suffrage universal suffragists violation void law voters York World
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Page 54 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 122 - They do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them.
Page 83 - That all citizens of the United States who are or shall be otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; any constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any State or Territory, or by or under its authority, to...
Page 118 - ... it does not appear that it was their intent to interfere with any right granted or secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States. We may suspect that "race" was the cause of the hostility; but it is not so averred.
Page 89 - That if two or more persons shall band or conspire together, or go in disguise upon the public highway, or upon the premises of another, with intent to violate any provision of this act, or to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise and enjoyment of any right or privilege granted or secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 107 - From this it appears that the right of suffrage is not a necessary attribute of national citizenship, but that exemption from discrimination in the exercise of that right on account of race, etc., is. The right to vote in the states comes from the states; but the right of exemption from the prohibited discrimination comes from the United States.
Page 106 - It prevents the states or the United States, however, from giving preference, in this particular, to one citizen of the United States over another on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Page 84 - ... of the person or officer charged with the duty of receiving or permitting such performance or offer to perform or acting thereon, be deemed and held as a performance in law of such act ; and the person so offering and failing as aforesaid, and being otherwise qualified, shall be entitled to vote in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had in fact performed such act...
Page 79 - No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(0(2), as provided in subsection (b).
Page 87 - State legislature, by reason of the denial to any citizen or citizens who shall offer to vote of the right to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, his right to hold and enjoy such office, and the emoluments thereof, shall not be impaired by such denial ; and such person...
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| Title | Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Md Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment, John Mabry Mathews |
| Author | John Mabry Mathews |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins Press, 1909 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 22, 2006 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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