State Ex Rel. Beck v. Hummel

'Turner, J.,

dissenting. The place to start to find the state’s authority in respect of presidential electors is the Constitution of the United States.

Section 1, Article II, provides in part as follows:

“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof mag direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress; but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.” (Italics ours.)

Here, then, is the state’s…