American Citizenship; And the Right of Suffrage in the United States (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...be disqualified therefor by the Constitution of the United States, until such disqualification shall be removed by the Congress of the United States: Provided further, That no person, while kept in an almshouse or asylum, or of insane mind, or confined in any public prison, shall be allowed to vote or hold office. Sec. 3. It shall be fl1e duty of the General Assembly to provide from time to time, for the registration of all electors. Sec. 4 For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have lost his residence by reason of absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor while engaged upon the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas, nor while temporarily absent from the State. Sec. 5. No soldier, seaman, or marine in the Army or Navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of this State in consequence of having been stationed therein. Sec, 7. Every person entitled to vote at any election shall be eligible to any office which now is, or hereafter shall be, elected by the people in the county where he shall have resided sixty days previous to such election, ex Constitution of South Carolina, 18 cept as otherwise provided in this Constitution or the Constitution of the United States. Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall never pass any laws that will deprive any of the citizens of this State of the right of suffrage, except of treason, murder, robbery, or duelling, whereof the persons shall have been duly tried and convicted. Sec. 12. No person shall be disfranchised for felony, or other crimes committed while such person was a slave. Vermont. CHAPTER I. VII. That all elections ought to be free and without corruption, and that all freemen, having a sufficient evidence, common interest with, and attachmen...