Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
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87th Congress action administrative Alaska Alaska and Hawaii aliens in counting apportioned apportionment of Representatives Arkansas at-large BATTIN California Carolina Census Bureau Chairman Chelf bill committee congressional districts Constitution County decennial census delegation Democrats Director election of Representatives enacted entitled equal proportions exclude aliens Federal follows Frank Chelf fund gentleman Government Hawaii hearings House Joint Resolution House membership House of Representatives Illinois increase the membership June 18 KASTENMEIER Kentucky legislation legislature LIBONATI malapportionment Massachusetts Members of Congress ment million North Carolina number of districts number of persons number of Representatives number of seats PENDLETON Pennsylvania percent permanent membership political population present problem Proposing an amendment question reapportionment redistricting Repre representation Representatives in Congress Republican run at large Salaries and expenses SCAMMON session Stat statement subcommittee subsequent decennial censuses tion Total United Virginia vote Washington WHITTEN whole number WILLIS YATES York
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Página 209 - Gobitis opinion reasoned that this is a field "where courts possess no marked and certainly no controlling competence," that it is committed to the legislatures as well as the courts to guard cherished liberties and that it is constitutionally appropriate to "fight out the wise use of legislative authority in the forum of public opinion and before legislative assemblies rather than to transfer such a contest to the judicial arena," since all the "effective means of inducing political changes are...
Página 183 - That every person whose usual place of abode shall be In any family on the aforesaid first Monday in August next, shall be returned as of such family...
Página 71 - In determining what it may do in seeking assistance from another branch, the extent and character of that assistance must be fixed according to common sense and the inherent necessities of the governmental coordination.
Página 79 - It destroys at one blow, in construing the Constitution of the United States, the doctrine universally applied to all instruments of writing, that what is implied is as much a part of the instrument as what is expressed.
Página 70 - Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants.
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