Attorney General v. Abbott

I do not reach the same conclusion in this case as Mr. Justice Long. It is doubtless true the authorities cited by him tend to sustain the conclusion reached by him; but a careful examination of them shows that the question involved here was not directly involved in the cases cited, while reason, as it seems to me, sustained by a very respectable weight of authority, reaches a conclusion more in keeping with the trend of modern thought. The citation made from Cushing is taken from a chapter headed “Legislative Assemblies,” and the learned author is discussing only the question of who may be…