Author : Kirk Harold Porter
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230063393
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Book Synopsis A History of Suffrage in the United States Volume 285 by : Kirk Harold Porter
Download or read book A History of Suffrage in the United States Volume 285 written by Kirk Harold Porter and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...citizen. While there was not the same motive to give them suffrage before naturalization as there was in Wisconsin and Indiana, there was also lacking the sentiment that prevailed in New England. The only feature of this constitution that could be looked upon as working against the foreigner was the two-year-residence requirement. The constitution under which "bleeding Kansas" joined the Union in 1861 was drawn in 18 59. As the epithet implies, there had been a long and bitter contest over this state as to whether or not slavery should be permitted there. There is no occasion to go into that controversy here. It is dealt with in most general histories and occupied a great deal of time in Congress;' but the constitution finally adopted and put in operation in Kansas permitted foreigners to vote after declaring their intention to become citizens. On February 22, 18 56, the American party ("KnowNothings") held a national convention at Philadelphia and drew up a party platform. They specifically denounced Wisconsin and certain territories for having admitted aliens to the suffrage and proceeded to declare some very radical doctrines. Two of the articles in their platform are as follows: Article 8. An enforcement of the principle that no state or territory ought to admit others than citizens to the right of suffrage or of holding political oflices in the United States. ' House Committee Reports, First Session, Thirty-fifth Congress, III, 82, No. 377. Article 9. A change in the laws of naturalization, making a continued residence of twenty-one years, of all not heretofore provided for, an indispensable requisite for citizenship hereafter.1 This party had been growing for some years and was one of the very few...