A Historical and Legal Digest of All the Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives of the United States from the First to the Fifty-sixth Congress, 1789-1901U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - 864 páginas |
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... Constitution to issue . If this election was not valid , no election could be held to fill the vacancy until the legislature should pass a law providing for holding it . The law of the State required thirty days ' notice for a regular ...
... Constitution to issue . If this election was not valid , no election could be held to fill the vacancy until the legislature should pass a law providing for holding it . The law of the State required thirty days ' notice for a regular ...
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... Constitution . Decision in favor of the sitting member , but direct deci- sion of the constitutional question avoided . Under the law of Maryland the town and county of Baltimore con- stituted one district , which was entitled to send ...
... Constitution . Decision in favor of the sitting member , but direct deci- sion of the constitutional question avoided . Under the law of Maryland the town and county of Baltimore con- stituted one district , which was entitled to send ...
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... Constitution . Any addition by the States to the constitutional qualifications would be an infringement on the reserved right of the people to elect any person to Congress not disqualified by the Constitution . The only power over the ...
... Constitution . Any addition by the States to the constitutional qualifications would be an infringement on the reserved right of the people to elect any person to Congress not disqualified by the Constitution . The only power over the ...
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... Constitution provides that " no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House ... Constitution , clothed with every legislative power as amply as it was enjoyed by the Thirteenth . The Constitution ...
... Constitution provides that " no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House ... Constitution , clothed with every legislative power as amply as it was enjoyed by the Thirteenth . The Constitution ...
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... Constitution is not confided to us . Ours is a more humble duty ; it is to expound the text by a fair interpretation . We ca .. neither add nor diminish . The object of our inquiry is not what ought to be , but what is . * Whoever looks ...
... Constitution is not confided to us . Ours is a more humble duty ; it is to expound the text by a fair interpretation . We ca .. neither add nor diminish . The object of our inquiry is not what ought to be , but what is . * Whoever looks ...
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Términos y frases comunes
41st Cong 47th Cong admitted affidavits aliunde alleged appointed ballot boxes Bart bribery candidate cast for contestant charged claimant clerk committee found committee held Committee on Elections Constitution Contestee retained counted the votes county canvassers county clerk court Dallas County deducted Democratic district election officers electors Ells entitled evidence facie fact fraud fraudulent governor ground House illegal votes intimidation irregularities Kentucky Kittson County large number legislature minority held minority report mittee Mobley names notice of contest number of votes oath officers of election party persons petitioner poll books poll list precincts prima facie proof proved qualifications question recount refused registration rejected report for contestee Representatives Republican residence result retained the seat session shown sitting member Smith South Carolina statute sworn take testimony taken Territory testee testified ticket tion vacant Virginia voted for contestant votes cast votes were cast witnesses wrong boxes
Pasajes populares
Página 596 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página 271 - In a strict and legal seN.se that is properly the domicil of a person where he has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus rercrtcndi) .u [Italics supplied.] Mr.
Página 590 - Yet, he would be charged with insanity who should contend, that the legislature might not superadd, to the oath directed by the constitution, such other oath of office as its wisdom might suggest.
Página 264 - No bill shall become a law which embraces more than one subject, that subject to be expressed in the title. All acts which repeal, revive or amend former laws, shall recite in their caption, or otherwise, the title or substance of the law repealed, revived or amended.
Página 378 - Court have uniformly supposed, that the true interpretation of the thirty-fourth section limited its application to State laws strictly local, that is to say, to the positive statutes of the State, and the construction thereof adopted by the local tribunals...
Página 535 - It is an elementary principle of the law of evidence that the best evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible...
Página 765 - Election statutes are to be tested like other statutes, but with a leaning to liberality, in view of the great public purposes which they accomplish...
Página 271 - State; 6. If a person remove to another State with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, and as a place of present residence, he loses his residence in this State, notwithstanding he entertains an intention of returning at some future period; 7.
Página 327 - Constitution, and thereafter at such times and places, and in such manner as may be prescribed by law. When a new apportionment shall be made by Congress, the general assembly shall divide the State into congressional districts accordingly.
Página 607 - Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government, in the hands of the state legislatures, would leave the existence of the union entirely at their mercy.