It is simply, I think, unconstitutional and un-American to be asking how people are going to vote once they're admitted.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It is simply, I think, unconstitutional and un-American to be asking how people are going to vote once they're admitted.”
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Norton argues against political tests for statehood admission.
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