The Law of Suffrage and Elections: Being a Compendium of Cases and Decisions Showing the Origin of the Elective Franchise, and Defining Citizenship and Legal Residence, Together with the Clauses of the State Constitutions Prescribing the Qualifications for Suffrage, and the Law Governing the Conduct of Elections in the Several StatesNaar, Day & Naar, printers, 1880 - 317 pages |
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... rule would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States as it would have been difficult to the convention . The provision made by the convention appears , therefore , to be the best that lay within their option ...
... rule would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States as it would have been difficult to the convention . The provision made by the convention appears , therefore , to be the best that lay within their option ...
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... rules or oaths as may be deemed necessary as a test of electoral qualification . The legislature shall provide by law for the payment of an annual poll - tax , of not less than two nor exceeding four dollars , for each male person ...
... rules or oaths as may be deemed necessary as a test of electoral qualification . The legislature shall provide by law for the payment of an annual poll - tax , of not less than two nor exceeding four dollars , for each male person ...
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... rules and tests as applicable in ascertaining whether it has been acquired , as are applied in deter- mining whether a place is a man's domicile . Legal resi- dence and domicile are , in this connection , except as to the element of ...
... rules and tests as applicable in ascertaining whether it has been acquired , as are applied in deter- mining whether a place is a man's domicile . Legal resi- dence and domicile are , in this connection , except as to the element of ...
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... rules are applied in determining the ac- quisition of both domicile and legal residence , it is , nev- ertheless , to be observed that , in regard to residence as a qualification for suffrage , time always enters as a mate- rial ...
... rules are applied in determining the ac- quisition of both domicile and legal residence , it is , nev- ertheless , to be observed that , in regard to residence as a qualification for suffrage , time always enters as a mate- rial ...
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... rule . It must be a residence in good faith . " The indictment was sustained . In New Jersey the question of residence was considered in the case of Cadwallader v . Howell et al . , and it was there decided that the residence required ...
... rule . It must be a residence in good faith . " The indictment was sustained . In New Jersey the question of residence was considered in the case of Cadwallader v . Howell et al . , and it was there decided that the residence required ...
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Page 252 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 283 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 36 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 15 - Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards, excepting paupers and persons under guardianship, who shall have resided within the commonwealth one year, and within the town or district in which he may claim a right to vote, six calendar months next preceding any election of governor, lieutenant-governor, senators, or representatives, and who shall have paid...
Page 259 - Senator, and the person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected. If no person receives such majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at twelve o'clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the legislature, and shall take at least one vote, until a Senator is elected.
Page 16 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, hoicever, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote...
Page 68 - Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practice.
Page 288 - If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal protection of the...
Page 283 - District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both...
Page 35 - State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside.