...Ontario.8 By the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that each House of Congress shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members ; and by the constitutions in the different States, each House of the State legislatures has the same...

...and dangerous as that which has just been witnessed. The Constitution provides that 'each House shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members.' It is clear that this clause of the Constitution created the Bouse a high judicial tribunal to hear...

...legislation. The meetings begin on the first Monday in December. The Constitution says, — " 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...

...is provided that : . "The board of aldermen shall determine the rules of Its own proceedings: shall be the Judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, subject, however, to review by certiorari of any court of competent jurisdiction." Under this provision...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...it to the others. Read carefully this oath (see Article III, Section 8). Contests. "Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members." This means that in case a dispute arises as to who is elected in any district, the matter is finally...

...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...

...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....