Indian Fishing Rights: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on S. 727 ... March 27, 1987, Washington, DC.

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Página 67 - States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; (b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided. That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property...
Página 156 - We agree with the Government that Indians are citizens and that in ordinary affairs of life, not governed by treaties or remedial legislation, they are subject to the payment of income taxes as are other citizens. We also agree that, to be valid, exemptions to tax laws should be clearly expressed.
Página 71 - A cardinal rule in dealing with written instruments is that they are to receive an unvarying interpretation, and that their practical construction is to be uniform. A Constitution is not to be made to mean one thing at one time, and another at some subsequent time when the circumstances may have so changed as perhaps to make a different rule in the case seem desirable.
Página 70 - If the general legislature should at any time overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the constitution does not authorize, it is void, and the judicial power, the national judges, who, to secure their impartiality, are to be made independent, will declare it to be void.
Página 63 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Ind.ians, not taxed, are hereby declared tp be citizens of the United States...
Página 87 - States; and that the treaty must therefore be construed, not according to the technical meaning of its words to learned lawyers, but in the sense in which they would naturally be understood by the Indians (Worcester v, Georgia, 6 Pet.
Página 177 - The right to resort to the fishing places in controversy was a part of the larger rights possessed by the Indians, upon the exercise of which there was not a shadow of impediment, and which were not much less necessary to the existence of the Indians than the atmosphere they breathed.
Página 61 - States, in Congress assembled, in such mode as they shall direct and appoint; provided, always, that in such numeration no persons shall be included who are bound to servitude for life, according to the laws of the State to which they belong, other than such as may be between the ages of* years.
Página 72 - A constitution is not to be made to mean one thing at one time, and another at some subsequent time when the circumstances may have so changed as perhaps to make a different rule in the case seem desirable. A principal share of the benefit expected from written constitutions would be lost if the rules they established were so flexible as to bend to circumstances or be modified by public opinion.
Página 68 - Wherever you see a head, hit it : ' wherever you find an article, a product, a trade, a profession, or a source of income, tax it!

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