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TAYLOR AND MARSHALL v. BECKHAM (NO. 1)

No. 603.

178 U.S. 548 (1900)

20 S.Ct. 1009

44 L.Ed. 1187

TAYLOR AND MARSHALL v. BECKHAM (NO. 1).

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Helm Bruce and Mr. W.O. Bradley for plaintiffs in error. Mr. James P. Helm and Mr. Kennedy Helm were on the brief.

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., and Mr. Lewis McQuown, for defendant in error. Mr. W.S. Pryor was on their brief.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

It is obviously essential to the independence of the States, and to their peace and tranquility, that their power to prescribe the qualifications of their own officers, the tenure of their offices, the manner of their election, and the grounds on which, the tribunals before which, and the mode in which, such elections may be contested, should...

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