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1919 United States Supreme Court case

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.

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

Text of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 (1919) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia

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