Pendleton v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is palpable that the office of county superintendents of public free schools is a constitutional office, and that the power of removal from that office is expressly lodged by the constitution with the board of education, for cause and upon notice to the incumbents, subject to confirmation by the senate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Banks v. Sellers