...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...