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In 1872, George Q. Cannon ( R - Utah) was elected as the non-voting delegate for Utah Territory to the House of Representatives. He remained a duly-elected congressional delegate until 1882, when his seat was declared vacant by the enactment of the anti-Mormon Edmunds Act. B. H. Roberts ( D - Utah) was not seated after being elected in 1898 to ...
Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a Member of Congress. The United States Constitution (Article I, Section 5, Clause 2) provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."
The election is held to have been undue: the original return is quashed, and another candidate is declared to have been elected. The election is upheld, and the member returned is found to have been duly elected. The petition is withdrawn. This may occur when the petitioner fails to attend a hearing, or when Parliament is dissolved before the ...
e. United States Capitol building, where the legislature of the United States, the United States Congress, meets, located in Washington, DC. A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of ...
The fake electors plot was in harmony with Trump's refusal to ever leave office and the White House after the end of his term. Maggie Haberman has described how Trump initially recognized he had lost the election, but then expressed he would "never" leave: Trump seemed to recognize he had lost to Biden.
A free elections law, also known as a free and equal elections clause, is a section in many U.S. state constitutions which mandates that elections of public officials shall be free and not influence by other powers. Most such laws were placed into state constitutions in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The Fifteenth Amendment ( Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, [1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments .
t. e. Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. [1] Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy ...