If the folks of the United States, by modification of their Constitution, may expunge, without any explanatory or aiding laws, an adjective of five letters from all State constitutions, and thereby increase tens of millions of our most ignorant fellow-citizens to all of the rights and privileges of electors, why shouldn’t the same people, by the same Amendment, expunge an adjective of four letters from the same State constitutions, and thereby increase different thousands and thousands of more educated and better informed residents to equal rights and privileges, with out explanatory or aiding laws? If the XIV. Amendment does not secure to all citizens the appropriate to vote, for what goal was that grand old charter of the fathers lumbered with its unwieldy proportions? Once you, younger man, shall travel abroad among the monarchies of the outdated world, and there proudly boast yourself an “American citizen,” will you thereby declare yourself neither more nor lower than a “member” of the American nation? The phrase “a citizen of the United States,” with out addition or qualification, means neither more nor less than a member of the nation. We all know that American citizenship, with out addition or qualification, means the possession of equal rights, civil and political.
There just isn’t, it’s believed, to be discovered within the theories of writers on government, or in any precise experiment heretofore tried, an exposition of the term citizen, which has not been considered as conferring the precise possession and enjoyment of the perfect proper of acquisition and enjoyment of an entire equality of privileges, civil and political. Thus, you see, those newly-made freed males were in possession of every potential right, privilege, and immunity of the federal government, except that of suffrage, and therefore, wanted no constitutional modification for every other goal. Amendment. Judge Underwood, of Virginia, in noticing the latest determination of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, denying to women the best to vote, below the XIV. And the lawyer, who carried this question to its remaining success, is now the Senator elect from Oregon, Hon. J. H. Mitchell, in whom the cause of equal rights to girls has an added power on the flooring of the United States Senate. The words “folks of the United States” and “residents,” are synonymous phrases, and imply the identical factor. In construing a benevolent statute of the government, made for the good thing about its personal citizens, inviting and encouraging them to settle on its distant public lands, the phrases “single man,” and “unmarried man” might, especially if aided by the context and different elements of the statute, be taken in a generic sense.
Protection of the government, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the appropriate to amass and possess property of each kind, and to pursue and acquire happiness and safety, subject to such restraints as the federal government may justly prescribe for the overall welfare of the whole; the suitable of a citizen of one State to cross by or to reside in every other State for the purpose of trade, agriculture, skilled pursuit, or in any other case; to say the advantage of the writ of habeas corpus, to institute and maintain actions of any kind in the courts of the State; to take, hold, and dispose of property, either real or personal, and an exemption from higher taxes or impositions than are paid by the opposite citizens of the State. Is the correct to vote one of many privileges or immunities of citizens? No State shall make or enforce any legislation which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of residents; nor shall any State deprive any individual of life, liberty or property, with out due technique of law, nor deny to any individual within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the legal guidelines.
We all know that the crowning glory of every citizen of the United States is, that he can either give or withhold his vote from each legislation and every legislator under the government. The previous gave it as his opinion a 12 months in the past, when the Legislature appeared prone to revoke the legislation enfranchising the women of that Territory, that, in case they succeeded, the ladies would nonetheless possess the precise to vote under the XIV. The primary photograph of lesbians on the cover was executed in September 1964, exhibiting two ladies from the again, on a seashore looking out to sea. I’m proud to say the names of the 2 United States judges who have given opinions honorable to our Republican thought, and honorable to themselves-Judge Howe, of Wyoming Territory, and Judge Underwood, of Virginia. All persons born or naturalized within the United States and topic to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Nevertheless, the entire adverse arguments, antagonistic congressional studies and judicial opinions, up to now, have been primarily based on this purely partisan, time-serving opinion of General Bates, that the normal condition of the citizen of the United States is that of disfranchisement.