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Original Knights Of The Ku Klux — Part 1
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“Ex parte Yarbrough, The Xu Xiun Ala. ceases,
ef the election procedure wien thciz choice is of significance”.
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dere, in terms of a meaningful ricgh= to vote, int ference with
Negro citizens’ registering is istacference at the most critical
= time oF course that
stage of the alestion procedure./ cna framers of the Constitution
neither they
éid not know about the regiscrosic: pescess; but/they did Mot have
in mind the selection of senstors a...4 representatives by the
direct primary. In United Stacss v. Louisiana, EVD.La. 1963,
m Oocnhel sroundcs,
225 F. Supp. 353, 359, aff'é./issi., 396 U.s, 145 his Cour
said:
"Congressional authority furccr Article I, §4] ex
sends to registration, & shese of the electoral
aug Feathers but today
ssrocess unknown to the rs
a critical, inseparable che electoral
process which must nece concern the United
States, since registration ts vote covers voting
in federal as well as in stite elections.
In United States v. Manninc, i.D.la. 1963, 215 F. Supp. 272, one
o= the constitutional atsacis oa theo Civil Rights Act of 1960 was
Girected at the provision for --lis... registrars. In the opinion
upholding the act, the Court considused it important that--
“Por purposes of ac
objective the electic
ne process.
thas starts with
seuistration, Sie lee scr, écLstration ils an in-
divisible part of eleauis: . There is no
separate registration = h-@Téctions. Any
interference with the ¢
register is therefere i
election,“ 215 F. Supp.
{c) Classic relied on three ingoxsant cases that constsue the
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‘aature and extent of the power of Congress to regulate federal
Slections: Ex parte Siebold, 1552, 100 U.S. 371, 25 L.Ed. 717;
1884, 110 U.s. 652,
4 6.Cb. 152, 28 L.Ed, 274; and Sursesghs v. United States, 1934,
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534, §4 S.ct 3.58, 485, Deecom, These cases
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