Simons v. Canty

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the right to regulate the elective franchise is an absolute and unqualified right of the State
• noting that the right to regulate the elective franchise is an absolute and unqualified right of the State
• observing that the felon disenfranchisement provision of the 1864 Maryland constitution “is dissociated from any reference to penalty, and made the consequence of conviction, in the same connection with lunacy or persons non compos,” for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause
• describing bills of attainder as “special Acts of the Legislature, inflicting capital or other punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of an offence, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).