Report of the Honourable Nathaniel Theodore Nemetz Appointed a Commissioner to Inquire Into the Certain Charges of Election Irregularities in the Federal Election 1963
Report of the Honourable Nathaniel Theodore Nemetz Appointed a Commissioner to Inquire Into the Certain Charges of Election Irregularities in the Federal Election 1963

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Published: 1965

Total Pages: 34

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The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, advise that the Honourable Nathaniel Theodore Nemetz, Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, be appointed a Commissioner under Part I of the Inquires Act to inquire fully into and to investigate the charges of irregularities in the federal election of 1963 made by Mr. Ormond Turner in the issue of the Vancouver Province of February 22, 1965, and in any other issues thereof, and to consider such other matters as many appear to the Commissioner to be relevant and to report fully thereon ...

Federal Royal Commissions in Canada 1867-1966
Federal Royal Commissions in Canada 1867-1966

Author: George F. Henderson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1967-12-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1487590008

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The subjects inquired into by Canadian federal royal commissions have ranged over such a wide field that the reports and special studies prepared by the 400 commissions since Confederation have become an essential part of any research in Canadian studies. In many cases the special studies which are always prepared by the best experts available stand as the most important works ever to appear on a given subject. For example, the studies used by the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1937-1940) are still used as required reading in both graduate and undergraduate university courses almost thirty years later. In the author's work as Government Documents Librarian, he witnesses the daily use of royal commission material. The importance attached to royal commission documents and the considerable difficulty in locating many of the earlier reports let Henderson to undertake the compilation of this checklist four years ago.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Author: Kevin J. Coleman

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781505554328

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The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. The suit challenged the constitutionality of Sections 4 and 5 of the VRA, under which certain jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting-mostly in the South-were required to "pre-clear" changes to the election process with the Justice Department (the U.S. Attorney General) or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The preclearance provision (Section 5) was based on a formula (Section 4) that considered voting practices and patterns in 1964, 1968, or 1972. At issue in Shelby County was whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it reauthorized the VRA in 2006-with the existing formula-thereby infringing on the rights of the states. In its ruling, the Court struck down Section 4 as outdated and not "grounded in current conditions." As a consequence, Section 5 is intact, but inoperable, unless or until Congress prescribes a new Section 4 formula.