Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, First[-second] Session: pt. 2-4. Woman suffrageU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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Page 146 - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. (2) Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Page 121 - Were the laws of the Union to new model the internal police of any State ; were they to alter or abrogate at a blow the whole of its civil and criminal Institutions; were they to penetrate the recesses of domestic life and control in all respects the private conduct of individuals, there might be more force in the objection ; and the same Constitution which was happily calculated for one State, might sacrifice the welfare of another.
Page 121 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass; Of consequence, when they act, they act in their States.
Page 146 - STATEMENT OF HON. EDWARD T. TAYLOR, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I.
Page 88 - Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State...
Page 148 - It is necessary for me to be on the floor of the House in a few minutes, and...
Page 88 - Subject to the joint action of the Vice President of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the jurisdiction and control including the care and maintenance of the legislative garage.
Page 155 - We would be glad to hear Mr. Evans. STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN M. EVANS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA Mr. EVANS. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, it is very gracious of you to permit me to appear. For many years I have believed that the Government ought to •conscript property, wealth, in the case of war. I advocated it upon...
Page 119 - ... a cure ; not that compromises are not often proper, but that no popular government can long survive a marked precedent, that those who carry an election can only save the government from immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election. The people themselves and not their servants can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Page 134 - I believe in woman suffrage whether all women vote or no women vote, whether all women vote right or all women vote wrong, whether women will love their husbands after they vote or forsake them, whether they will neglect their children or never have any children.