 | North Dakota. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1889 - 464 pages
...absent members, in such a manner and under such a penalty as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 23. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. SEC. 24. Each house shall have power to determine the rules of proceeding and punish its members or... | |
 | Ann Arbor (Mich.). - Ann Arbor (Mich.) - 1889 - 146 pages
...shall appoint one of their number to act as clerk during said session. SECTION 73. The common council shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. It shall hold regular stated meetings for the transaction of business at such times and places within... | |
 | Maine - Law - 1889 - 776 pages
...for such meeting. SECT. 12. The city council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. In case of the absence of the president, the city council shall choose a president pro tempore, and... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...other provision* common to both, which we now proceed to discuss. The Constitution provides: "Each House shall be the judge of the election returns, and qualifications of its own members." It is necessary that those powers should be vested in the House where the membership is claimed. Thi*... | |
 | California - Law - 1910 - 2246 pages
...members as president pro tempore, who shall, however, have the same right to vote as other members. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, and may determine the roles of its own proceedings, except as herein provided. Each house lhall keep... | |
 | Allen Daniel Candler - Georgia - 1910 - 640 pages
...Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur in amendments, as in other bills. SECTION 4. 1. Each House shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members; and shall have power to punish them for disorderly behavior or misconduct, by censure, fine, imprisonment... | |
 | James Ernest Boyle - North Dakota - 1910 - 434 pages
...in place of the Vice President, who is at ordinary sittings president of the Senate. The Senate is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. Thus in the famous case of Reed Smoot of Utah, discussed widely in the newspapers of the time on account... | |
 | Willis Ernest Johnson - South Dakota - 1911 - 358 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... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1912 - 878 pages
...were clearly within its constitutional authority, it being provided in the Constitution that "each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members"; and undoubtedly the House had the right, after sufficient information, to judge and pass upon the election... | |
 | Joseph Walker McSpadden - Periodicals - 1912 - 1164 pages
...Congress as a whole may alter the Constitution by a twothirds vote. Each of the two Houses of Congress is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members and may, by two-thirds vote, expel a member. The period termed a "Congress," continues for two years.... | |
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