R-433-64 RESOLUTION NO. 433
WHEREAS, there is pending in Congress Senate Bill 1731, known
as the Civil Rights Bill of 1963, consisting of seven major titles; and
WHEREAS, these seven titles briefly provide as follows:
TITLE I: Insure absolute Federal control over
every local, state and national election;
TITLE II: Regulate every private business
establishment in the United States;
TITLE III: Couple formal desegration of public
schools in the South with complete elimination of "racial
imbalance" in ALL schools. Frequent use of this term means
thousands of students would be transported over natural school
boundary lines to insure "racial balance" as determined by the
Federal Government;
TITLE IV: Establish a "mediation" agency at
taxpayers? expense to meddle in local affairs throughout the
country whenever it is decided that racial difficulties exist;
TITLE V: Extend the life of the Civil Rights
Commission and give it additional powers;
TITLE VI: Vest horrendous powers in the President
to withdraw all aid from every government program, including
aid to the blind, dependent children, etc. , etc. Financial life
or death of almost every financial institution in the U. S. would
be in the hands of one man -- the President.
TITLE VII: Establish a Commission on Equal
Employment and again confer virtually unlimited powers upon
the President. Congress would abdicate and turn its legis-
lative powers over to the White House;
and
WHEREAS, according to published reports, a former President
of the American Bar Association said, respecting this bill, that:
"Never in the history of nations governed by
elected officials has the head of any state demanded naked
untrammeled power as is embodied in this Civil Rights
Act, except when such state was upon the verge of becoming
a dictatorship. "
and
WHEREAS, extension of Federal control over the lives and fortunes
of our citizens made possible by this bill will be intolerable and constitute
a worse tyranny than that exercised by George III.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by Miami Shores Village
Council that we urge our fellow citizens to employ all legal and lawful
means within their powers to cause the defeat of this so-called Civil
Rights Bill of 1963.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 7th day of January, 1964.
/A
Mayor
ATTEST:
Vi age Clerk
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