National Representation for the District of Columbia: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 136, a Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Empowering Congress to Grant Representation in the House of Represtatives and in the Electoral College to the District of Columbia. May 20, 1954United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 65 lappuses |
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67th Congress believe board of directors board of trade CHAIRMAN COLLADAY Commissioner CAMALIER Congress to grant constituting the seat constitutional amendment Council DAVIS Democratic denied District of Columbia District residents electoral college electors of President empowering Congress endorsed favorable report Federal city Federation of Citizens Federation of Women's full national representation give grant representation gress home rule House of Representatives Houses of Congress John Latimer Joint Resolution 136 Judiciary Committee laws LEEMAN legislatures McKELWAY ment National Capital national suffrage national taxes Noyes organization participation political population power to provide President and Vice President members elected privileges proposed amendment ratification representation in Congress S. J. Res seat of government self-government Senate Joint Resolution sess SMITHEY Soroptomist Club South Dakota statement subcommittee SUTER Thank Theodore Theodore W tion un-American United States empowering United States Senate Vice President members voting representation Washington Board WILLIAM LANGER Women's Clubs Wyoming
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18. lappuse - 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.
19. lappuse - ... 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 ; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated.
18. lappuse - 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 bring on the National Councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the Government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.
25. lappuse - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust.
1. lappuse - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that the following Article is hereby 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: Article Section 1.
18. lappuse - 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...
29. lappuse - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
18. lappuse - ... 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...
37. lappuse - The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District constituting the seat of the Government of the United States...
63. lappuse - I wish to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear before it on this important issue, and will be happy to answer any questions which the committee may have.