Tag: Congress
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Source of Congressional Investigations Power
Source of the Power to Investigate (Congressional Investigations)No provision of the Constitution expressly authorizes either house of Congress to pursue investigations and compel testimony in order to exercise its legislative functions. But such a power was frequently exercised by both the British …
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Qualifications of Members of Congress
Qualifications of Members of CongressNo person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the State in which he shall be chosen….
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Investigations of Members of Congress
Congressional Investigations of Members of CongressWhen either House exercises a judicial function, as in judging of elections or determining whether a member should be expelled, it is clearly entitled to compel the attendance of witnesses to disclose the facts upon which its action must be based. T…
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Congressional Pay
Congressional PayWith the surprise ratification of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, 1 it is now the rule that congressional legislation "varying"&emdash; decreasing or increasing&emdash;the level of legislators' pay may not take effect unt…
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Consent of Congress
Interstate Compacts: Consent of CongressThe Constitution makes no provision with regard to the time when the consent of Congress shall be given or the mode or form by which it shall be signified.1 While the consent will usually precede the compact or…
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Congress Assembling
Clause 2. Time of Assembling[The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different Day].1 ResourcesNotes and ReferencesThis text about …
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Congress Power to Prohibit
Interstate Commerce: Congress Power to Prohibit QuestionedThe question whether Congress's power to regulate commerce "among the several States" embraced the power to prohibit it furnished the topic of one of the most protracted debates in the entire history of the Constitution's in…
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Congress Power to Regulate Commerce
Is There an Intrastate Barrier to Congress's Commerce Power?Not only has there been legislative advancement and judicial acquiescence in Commerce Clause jurisprudence, but the melding of the Nation into one economic union has been more than a little responsible for the reach of Congress's po…
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Congressional Authorization Action
Congressional Authorization of Otherwise Impermissible State ActionThe Supreme Court has heeded the lesson that was administered to it by the Act of Congress of August 31, 1852,1 which pronounced the Wheeling Bridge "a lawful structure," th…
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Congressional Districting
House of Representatives: Congressional DistrictingA major innovation in constitutional law in recent years has been the development of a requirement that election districts in each state be structured so that each elected representative represents substantially equal populations.<a name=t1 href=#f1…