Representation Rights Quotes

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Public opinion in Britain demanded that we should make representations; we did so, to the cost of British material interests.

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.

While 18th century Americans objected to taxation without representation, they also objected equally to taxation with representation.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

It has been said that this Congress is to be a do-nothing Congress. My humble judgment is, if this House shall investigate carefully and determine correctly and accurately the numerous contested-election cases before it, it will have performed a duty to the country of greater importance than the settlement of any question that has ever claimed the attention of a deliberative legislative body in this Republic for the last half century.

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.

From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa's future.

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

Why in every instance should we be represented in any part of this world by any man who is not an American citizen?

In all the unsettled parts, boundaries of counties and cities of the county towns ought to be ascertained before-hand and purchases made of 600 or 1000 acres to be laid out in lots and outlots, and the profits applied to academies. The county to be declared by proclamation entitled to a separate representation as soon as the ratio of one member shall be complete, and to a separate judicature as soon as a Court house and jail proper for the purpose shall be finished. This plan would prevent much intrigue and partiality, and would throw the profits into a better channel than they are now in. At present county towns are only means of gain without merit to the owners of the land, who may impose what terms they please on the purchasers.

People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens - except for the teeny, tiny, mind-boggling fact that if you live in Puerto Rico, you are not allowed to cast a vote in the election for president. That tiny fact starts to get bigger when you realize that electing our own leaders is the whole reason that we have a country in the first place.

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

My staff in Washington and in the state will be dedicated to constituent services and the best representation for our state.