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Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 7, 1919
Full case nameMissouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Kansas
Citations248 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

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.

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

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