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 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1834 - 174 pages
...Governments. They seem indispensable to the due independence and efficiency of the body. The power to judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of the members of each House, must be lodged somewhere ; for otherwise, any intruder, or usurper, might assume to be a member. It... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...governments. They seem indispensable to the due independence and efficiency of the body. The power to judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications, of the members of each House, must be lodged somewhere ; for otherwise, any intruder, or usurper, might assume to be a member. It... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1865 - 1112 pages
...natural import of its language '? and, 8. What has been the practical construction given to it by tho action of legislative bodies under it? 1. Its object...judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of the members of each house composing th« Legislature, for otherwise there could be no certainty... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 382 pages
...governments. They seem indispensable to the due independence and efficiency of the body. The power to ,udge of the elections, returns, and qualifications, of the members of each House, must be lodged somewhere ; for otherwise, any intruder, or usurper, might assume to be a member. It... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
...governments. They seem indispensable to the due independence and efficiency of the body. The power to ;iidge of the elections, returns, and qualifications, of the members of each House, must be lodged somewhere ; for otherwise, any intruder, or usurper, might assume to be a member. It... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...constitutional provisions." Mr. Justice Story, in his work on the Constitution, section 833, says: "It is obvious that a power must be lodged somewhere...judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of the members of each house composing the Legislature; for otherwise there could be no certainty as... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...house may provide. " 1 (c) § 833. It is obvious that & power must be lodged somewhere to judgo of tho elections, returns, and qualifications of the members...as to who were legitimately chosen members, and any intruder or usurper might claim a seat, and thus trample upon the rights and privileges and liberties... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1895 - 406 pages
...constitutional provisions." Mr. Justice Story, in his work on the Constitution, section 833, says : " It is obvious that a power must be lodged somewhere...judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of the members of each house composing the Legislature ; for otherwise there could be no certainty... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1900 - 1134 pages
...most of the legislative assemblies of .the United States, by express constitutional provisions.'' " It is obvious that a power must be lodged somewhere...judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of the members of each house composing the Legislature; for otherwise there could be no certainty as... | |
 | John William Burgess - Constitutional law - 1902 - 374 pages
...its members, a matter to be decided by the whole Congress prior to the consideration of the question of the elections, returns, and qualifications of the members of each House. In a word, it was the question of the admission, or the readmission, of " States " into the Union,... | |
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