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48 CITIZFINSHIP AND SUFFRAGE IN MARYLAND.
disloyal persons, aLll<1 nligllt even refuse to hermit them to register,
ellalf d' tile law was, Hurt where special llmver is
~;ra.ntt•d by a Cunisllnrent of crimes and
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the Federal Constitution forbids them only when they increase their punish- t
lllellt. The llunlsltment (if treason is death anti this law diminishes the
ruin- - 's f
islrnlent by snbstitotim; disfranchisement therefor.' The Court, on tile eve
elf tile elucticm, decided that it wulll<1 not -rant an injunction, so that
the <,lec-
tion Should be held in a manner ditto rent 1'ronl that designed bv law. It ~
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further held that it had nn Imwer to give tile election ,judgtw a lmv-tr-
nanlc•ly : to receive tile 1>allut of a. person nut on the roll of
qualified votc,rs-
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nut rally not t•imi'i~rrml, but expressly talc-•n away by tile
Lelp-islatill.e. The
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decision Stated that e invoked to prevent
tilt- y t
1»rfernlanct• mf political cillties, Such as those of an officer elf
rcy'istration ;
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