To Amend the Constitution: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 102, H.J. Res. 351, February 13, 14, and 18, 1929

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - 35 pages
Committee Serial No. 38. Considers legislation to exclude aliens from the congressional apportionment enumeration.
 

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Page 2 - Resolvcd by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled...
Page 19 - The members of the Assembly shall be chosen by single districts, and shall be apportioned by the Legislature at the first regular session after the return of every enumeration among the several counties of the State, as nearly as may be according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens.
Page 19 - But in making such adjustment no persons who are not eligible to become citizens of the United States, under the naturalization laws, shall be counted as forming a part of the population of any district. Until such districting as herein provided for shall be made, Senators and Assemblymen shall be elected by the districts according to the apportionment now provided for by law.
Page 2 - RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following section be submitted to the legislatures of the several states, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, shall be valid and binding, as a part of the constitution of the United States.
Page 27 - ... published in the legal newspaper, issued at least weekly, in said county, designated by rules of court for the publication of court or other legal notices, if such newspaper exists. Publication in such legal newspaper shall be made as often as required to be made in such newspapers in general circulation, and shall be subject to the same stipulations and regulations as those imposed for the like services upon all newspapers: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to require...
Page 22 - ... (The committee thereupon went into executive session, at the conclusion of which an adjournment was taken...
Page 14 - I have not come to any conclusion upon the subject,, but I find my mind tending very strongly to the view that what this amendment would accomplish may be accomplished without any amendment. Mr. HERSEY. How? Mr. TUCKER. As I say, I have not come to any conclusion about it, but this Constitution was made for the people of the United States — "we, the people of the United States.
Page 13 - Government or in the election of a President and Vice President of the United States.
Page 6 - Patterson) that representation was an expedient by which the meeting of the people themselves was rendered unnecessary ; and that the representatives ought therefore to bear a proportion to the votes which their constituents, if convened, would respectively have.
Page 6 - Confederation, had been ashamed to use the term "slaves," and had substituted a description. Mr. MADISON reminded Mr. PATTERSON that his doctrine of representation, which was in its principle the genuine one, must forever silence the pretensions of the small States to an equality of votes with the large ones. They ought to vote in the same proportion in which their citizens would do, if the people of all the States were collectively met. He suggested as a proper ground of compromise, that in the...

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