Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United State Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 480, S. 2750, and 2979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 688 páginas |
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| Título | Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United State Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 480, S. 2750, and 2979 |
| Autor | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights |
| Editor | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca del Congreso |
| Digitalizado | 28 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 688 páginas |
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