Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 7, 1919
Full case name	Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas
Citations	248 U.S. 276 (more)
Holding
	Congress's power to override a presidential veto requires only two-thirds of a quorum in each house to support it, not two-thirds of all the members of each house.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Edward D. White Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr.; William R. Day · Willis Van Devanter; Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds; Louis Brandeis · John H. Clarke
Case opinion
Majority	White, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	Presentment Clause

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that congress's power to override a presidential veto requires only two-thirds of a quorum in each house to support it, not two-thirds of all the members of each house.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 (1919).
^ Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Veto Power". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 529.

External links

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[case-1] Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 (1919).

[Lieberman1999-2] Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Veto Power". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 529.

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