| New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - 1889 - 320 Seiten
...No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this State who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name ; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any... | |
| 1890 - 986 Seiten
...following amendment was added to the above provision of the Constitution of Massachusetts :— " ART. XX. 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... | |
| Austin De Wolf - 1890 - 216 Seiten
...or as officers. Gush. ParL Law, 13, 24 ; Cool. Con. Lim. "29, *599; Robinson's Case, 131 Mass. 376. 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... | |
| John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 408 Seiten
...babies — are not allowed to vote. A paragraph of the Constitution of Massachusetts reads thus: " 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... | |
| Maine - 1891 - 966 Seiten
...branches of the legislature concurring, that the constitution of this state be amended as follows : 'No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the constitution of this state, who shall not be" able to read the constitution in the English... | |
| Biddeford (Me.). School Board - 1892 - 120 Seiten
...better work than has ever been done before. The following amendment has been made to the Constitution: «No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office, under the Constitution of this State, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler - 1892 - 1198 Seiten
...Constitution w;u> another blow to the power of the Catholic Church and the Irishmen. It provided that " No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name." This article... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1436 Seiten
...the people of the several districts, for such term of office as the Legislature shall prescribe. Art. 4,0 4,`U4, under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention, George A. Glynn - 1894 - 1518 Seiten
...person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this State, ' ) )l$,*-*f" and write his name: Provided, however, That the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1326 Seiten
...disqualified to hold any office of profit or trust, or to vote at any election thereafter. MASSACHUSETTS. 20. , or other great public calamity, on petition of a majority of t under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the... | |
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