Mengelkamp v. List’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 16 state decisions

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1. “Petitioners also contend that whether they be legally qualified or not, still the respondent Clerk should be required to place their names on the ballots, and defer any decision of whether they should sit to the determination of the legislative body they desire to serve. The only support offered for this contention is Article 4, Section 6, of our Constitution which provides: ‘Each House shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its own members’. In other words, it seemingly is petitioners’ position that although a would-be candidate is admittedly disqualified to serve for one or a dozen reasons, election officials must place his name on the ballot; that he may seek the preference of the voters over qualified candidates; and that if he attracts sufficient votes, then the House in which he seeks to serve may seat him, if it chooses. We reject this contention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bryan v. Fawkes