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The Literacy Test and Its Making

Henry Pratt Fairchild

Yale University

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1917

Noteworthy provisions, other than the literacy test, in the act of 1917, 448. — The literacy test itself significant of a change in public opinion, 449. — The earlier acts aimed at selection only, 451. — The literacy test a measure of restriction, 452. — The bill of 1897, vetoed by President Cleveland, 453. — Speaker Cannon's successful manoeuvers against a similar bill in 1906, 455. — President Taft's veto of 1913, 456. — President Wilson's veto of 1915, 459. — The act of 1917 finally passed over the veto, 459.

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10.2307/1883384
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31 (3)
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