Commonwealth, Etc. v. O'connell, SEC. of State

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilfobd

Affirming.

In this solemn moment in the Country’s history it has devolved upon this Court to say whether the youth of our native State, now absent in the defense of the nation, shall be permitted to enjoy the right attempted to be conferred upon them by the 1944 Grenerial Assembly to vote in presidential and congressional elections. As to their moral right, there can be no question. Their legal right, denied by the State Constitution, is dependent upon whether the Legislature, in endeavoring to confer it, was so empowered by the people of the whole Union,…