Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-16
no NUT TO CRACK.


legal iuminary" TO crack this mutt"
mo person shall be- Representative
who shall not have attained the age OF
NJ years. mud been seven years a citl.
zen Of the United States. and who shan
not. whom elected. he an inhabitant 81
that state In which he shall be chosen
That ~ a clause Of the Constitution
u the United States which needs no
cracking" and IN not obscure TO any
one who can read and IL not as destitute
Of common sense as the anti-"Mormon'
legal fogbank that calls Il nut to
crack"
The mist In the mind Of the malcvo-
lent and muddlcd qucrist, consists Of
Its notion that citizenship and the Huf-
frnre are IDENTICAL II talks about
Utah Including person "in her list Of
citizens who had been "diafranchlscd
and his disability had never been re-
moved" and then sums up by com
Guiding that 1T IL n clear case" that
II. he IL not u citizen.
A clear case indeed: na clear M mud.
II IL clear that the legal fogbnnk does
not undcrstaned what citizenship
means. That has been clear TO It's
readers for n long time. We need not
no any further for the definition Of that
term than the Constitution Of the Unit.
I'd States. with which the legal fogbank
~ ~ ignorant aA II In of many of the
laws passed In pursuance thereof.
~ p. u,., "n :" ,,n,nc, ~ he
jnrisdlctlon thereof are citizens u the
United States ana OF the state wherein
'hey reside Nruc'e XIV s''.
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Etcrs, all male citizens tWcnty-one
years OF age, who had resided IN tho
Tcrfitor, one year next preceding the
election. were endowed with tho riEh, to
vote for delegates and the acts OF Con-
ErcnH which deprived certain citizens
OF that right were In express terms re-
peaied. That was done for the purpose
81 removing their disabilities. The
women citizens. however. were not re-
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When the state entered the Union.
tho laws relating 10 the Territory. pen
nlties. Acknowledgement ANA AL were
dead and buried 40 far nm they related
to Utah. " the legal fogbanis disputes
this, we elite the words ~ one whom II
VIII recognize ns legal authority II
not n legal luminary. senator Heorg'
H. EdmundH In an oriioie on this sub
ject written FOR tho New York Journal
says
The Instant the state was admitted
.y,ry n,t nt Consf,Hs tvlasin ., '9 ".
whatever, The conseat,enca h that lr
point Of law the state OF wan has TN
same soNofrisn rights ihni any o'hv'
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