Kelley v. Secretary of State

Relator, the lieutenant governor of the State, seeks by these proceedings a mandamus compelling respondent, the secretary of State, to take the steps required by him to be taken in the following concurrent (so-called) resolution:

“Resolved by the senate (the house of representatives concurring) that there shall be submitted to the people of the State of Michigan at the election to be held on the seventeenth day of September, nineteen hundred seven, for choosing delegates to the constitutional convention, the question of nomination by direct vote of the qualified electors of the State, of the…