Session #87 · 1961–63

Speech #870191502

California. Connecticut. Delaware. Maine. Massachusetts. New Hampshire. New York. Oklahoma. Oregon. Washington. and Wyoming all require some form of literacy test. Laws governing the right to vote have been enacted. amended. contested in State courts. and tested by long experience by the citizens of the several States since the formation of the Nation. It would be a constitutionally indefensible act for Congress to assume the duties so long exercised by the States. It cannot be successfully contended that the Members of Congress know more about proper qualifications for voters in any given State than do the members of that States legislature.
Keywords matched
literacy test

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ABSALOM ROBERTSON
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
870191502
Paragraph
#4
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