Lowers v. State Road Commission

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• concluding that “[v]oting rights for the House of Representatives are limited to the citizens of the states absent constitutional amendment to the contrary.”
• concluding that “[v]oting rights for the House of Representatives are limited to the citizens of the states absent constitutional amendment to the contrary.”
• concluding that Article I by its terms prohibits Puerto Rico from having a House Member
• holding that the right to elect Representatives to the House of Representatives “is given to residents of the States, not to citizens,” and that voting rights are conferred upon “citizens ‘of the several States’”
• explaining that plain error review “is seldom available for claims neither raised below nor on appeal”
• noting that \[a]rguments that are intentionally relinquished or abandoned\ or \raised in a perfunctory or not serious manner [are] waived\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).