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Leser v. Garnett , 258 U.S. 130 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Nineteenth Amendment was constitutional . [ 1 ]
Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 (1922), and Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130 (1922), are a pair of cases regarding the Nineteenth Amendment. The Court ruled that Fairchild, as a private citizen, lacked standing to challenge the amendment's ratification under the limitations of the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III. [2]
Case name Citation Summary United States v. Phellis: 257 U.S. 156 (1921) shares in a subsidiary corporation issued to stockholders in the parent corporation considered taxable income: Leser v. Garnett: 258 U.S. 130 (1922) constitutionality of Nineteenth Amendment: Balzac v. Porto Rico: 258 U.S. 298 (1922) sometimes considered one of the Insular ...
[94] [97] Leser further argued that the state constitutions in some ratifying states did not allow their legislatures to ratify. The court replied that state ratification was a federal function granted under Article V of the U.S. Constitution and not subject to a state constitution's limitations. Finally, those bringing suit asserted the ...
Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a general citizen, in a state that already had women's suffrage, lacked standing to challenge the validity of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. [1] A companion case, Leser v. Garnett, upheld the ratification. [2] [3] [4]
Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649, 36 L.Ed. 294, 12 S.Ct. 495 (1892). The principle is equally applicable to constitutional amendments. See Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130, 66 L.Ed. 505, 42 S.Ct. 217 (1922), which treats as conclusive the declaration of the Secretary of State that the nineteenth amendment had been adopted. In United States v.
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The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to participate in presidential elections to the District of Columbia.The amendment grants to the district electors in the Electoral College, as though it were a state, though the district can never have more electors than the least-populous state.