The Short ConstitutionWade, Martin J. (Martin Joseph)
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The Short Constitution
Wade, Martin J. (Martin Joseph)
United States. Constitution
A State may add further qualifications for voting, but no State may
deny the right to vote for any of the above reasons. Several States
have added literacy tests for voting, and others have denied the
right to vote to such as are insane or who have been convicted of
crime, unless pardoned by the Governor. A few States deny suffrage
to those whose taxes are delinquent.
112 The following countries of the world have equal suffrage: New
Zealand, 1893; South Australia, 1895; West Australia, 1900; The
Australian Federation, 1902; New South Wales, 1902; Tasmania, 1904;
Queensland, 1905; Finland, 1906; Victoria, 1908; Alaska, 1913;
Norway, 1913; Manitoba, 1916; Alberta, 1916; Iceland, 1913; Denmark,
1915; England, Scotland, Ireland, 1917; Sweden, 1918; Holland, 1919;
Luxemburg, 1919; Germany, 1919; Austria, 1919. In no other country
in the world is the right of suffrage more fully granted than in the
United States since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment.
113 “Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the
frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those
laws.”—William Penn.
114 “It is, Sir, the people’s Constitution, the people’s government,
made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the
people.”—Daniel Webster.
115 “In truth success cannot be expected from any system of government
unless the individuals who compose the State entertain the respect
for the personal rights and liberties of all.”—David Jayne Hill.
116 “We cannot, we must not, we dare not, omit to do that which, in our
judgment, the safety of the Union requires.”—Daniel Webster.
117 “Americanization always implies obligation; free choice determines
its acceptance, and its extension must come through avenues of
intelligent comprehension rather than through physical or
governmental domination.”—Winthrop Talbot.
118 “The fundamental evil in this country is the lack of sufficiently
general appreciation of the responsibility of citizenship.”—Theodore
Roosevelt.
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