 | Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1850 - 990 pages
...proposition to insert was not agreed to. Mr. CORNELL submitted the following as a substitute: "Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise," which was adopted. The question being upon concurring in the amendment of the committee as amended,... | |
 | Michigan - Constitutions - 1850 - 40 pages
...alms-house or other asylum at public enpense; nor while confined in any public prison. § 6. Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. 19 § 7. =No soldier, seaman, nor marine, in the army or navy of the United States, s'hall be deemed... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 784 pages
...Legislature, acting under the provisions of article 7, J 6, of the Constitution, which provides that "laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise." Todd v. Boards of Election Commissioners, 474. 2. Said act is not retroactive, and Is not applicable... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 758 pages
...authorized by law to be otherwise chosen;" and by section 6 of the same article it is provided: "Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise." The act in question was passed to secure this end; and although it may result in some inconvenience... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison. 6. Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. quence of being stationed in any military or naval place within the same. 8. Any inhabitant who may... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 808 pages
...native-born and naturalized citizens and electors. The Constitution authorizes the Legislature to enact laws "to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise;" but this does not authorize, bj direction or indirection, the disfranchisement, without his own fault... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 610 pages
...declares and defines the qualifications of voters, leaving to the legislature the right to pass laws to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. — Const. Art. VII, §§1-6. 2. In the exercise of this power, the Legislature cannot add new qualifications.... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 744 pages
...without such party connection. Relator insists that the Legislature under its power to pass laws " to preserve the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise " has discretionary power over the methods, and that even if the partisan qualification is improper... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...enactment of the section in question must be found, if at all, in section 8, art. 3, which reads : " Laws shall be passed to preserve the purity of elections and guard against the abuses of the elective franchise." I am unable to see how section 37 tends in any degree to either... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...any almshouse or other asylum at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison. 6. Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. 7. No soldier, seaman, nor marine, in the army or navy of tho United States, shall be deemed a resident... | |
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Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. 
