Supreme Court Cases on Political Representation, 1787-2001

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M.E. Sharpe, 2002 - 808 páginas
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Voters and Voting -- 2 Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests -- 3 Apportionment and Redistricting -- 4 The Decennial Census -- 5 Seeking Public Office -- 6 Political Parties -- 7 Campaign Contributions, Finance, and Spending -- 8 Electors, Elections, and Challenges to Electoral Outcomes -- 9 Election Judges, Inspectors, and Canvassing Boards -- 10 Accountability and Holding Legislative Elective Office -- 11 First Amendment Implications -- 12 Initiatives, Referenda, and the Right of Political Advocacy -- 13 Legislative Inquiries and Political Rights -- 14 Loyalty Tests and Oaths of Political Allegiance -- 15 Forms of Government -- 16 Other Cases Related to Political Rights -- Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States of America -- Appendix B: Table of Cases -- Appendix C: Bibliography -- Appendix D: Index -- About the Editor

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Voters and Voting
5
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
119
Apportionment and Redistricting
136
The Decennial Census
302
Seeking Public Office
323
Political Parties
351
Campaign Contributions Finance and Spending
424
Electors Elections and Challenges to Electoral Outcomes
456
Initiatives Referenda and the Right of Political Advocacy
572
Legislative Inquiries and Political Rights
637
Loyalty Tests and Oaths of Political Allegiance
667
Forms of Government
698
Other Cases Related to Political Rights
728
The Constitution of the United States of America
765
Table of Cases
781
Bibliography
791

Election Judges Inspectors and Canvassing Boards
485
Accountability and Holding Legislative Elective Office
508
First Amendment Implications
552
Index
795
About the Editor
807
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Página 494 - Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice...
Página 676 - ... that he is not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with such party, and that he does not believe in, and is not a member of or supports any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the United States Government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods.
Página 60 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Página 141 - We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis.
Página 625 - ... to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either house, or any committee of either house of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.
Página 160 - It might well be that, designedly or otherwise, a multi-member constituency apportionment scheme, under the circumstances of a particular case, would operate to minimize or cancel out the voting strength of racial or political elements of the voting population.

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