 | John Asa Ross, Frank Leslie Ransom - South Dakota - 1913 - 456 pages
...member of the house of representatives or any office within the gift of the legislature. Sec. 9. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. A majority of the members of each house shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
 | United States - 1913 - 1284 pages
...Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years," and makes each House " the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members. ' ' In the investigation of the claimants' right to seats the first question to be determined is, Was... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SECT. 6. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns, and qualifications, of its own members ; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 842 pages
...applicable to ordinances or laws of inferior bodies. The legislature is, in virtue of the constitution, "the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members," and has power to prescribe "the rules Opinion Per FCLLERTON, J. [83 Wash. of its own proceedings."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1202 pages
...applicable to ordinances or laws of inferior bodies. The Legislature is, iu virtue of the Constitution, "the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of Its own members," and has power to prescribe "the rules of its own proceedings." It has, therefore, the sole right to... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1917 - 794 pages
.... . MISCELLANEOUS OF CONTESTS FOR SEATS The Constitution, article 3, section 10, provides that each House shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. The member whose right to his seat is disputed holds it under the certificate of the canvassing board,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 842 pages
...State arc the legal votes. Under Art. I, Sec. 5, fl 1 of the Constitution, each branch of Congress is the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. Although the law may be disregarded, the House usually conducts its investigations of contested elections... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 844 pages
...State are the legal votes. Under Art. I, Sec. 5, fl 1 of the Constitution, each branch of Congress is the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. Although the law may be disregarded, the House usually conducts its investigations of contested elections... | |
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