Art. I, Sec. 4. Elections and the Assembly of Congress

The date on which Congress shall assemble each year has been modified by U.S. Const., amend. 20, sec. II.

Manner of holding elections, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. II and T. 21, Ch. 2, Art. 7, 8, 8A, 9, 10. Times of elections, §§ 21-2-150, 21-2-541. Places of elections, §§ 21-2-265, 21-2-266, 21-2-269, 21-2-270.

For comment on South v. Peters, 339 U.S. 276, 70 S. Ct. 641, 94 L. Ed. 834 (1950) denying federal jurisdiction in case involving apportionment, see 2 Mercer L. Rev. 275 (1950). For article, “Speech and Campaign Reform: Congress, The Courts and Community,” see 14 Ga. L. Rev. 195 (1980). For comment, “Between Judgment and Law: Full Faith and Credit, Public Policy, and State Records,” see 62 Emory L.J. 639 (2013). For article, “Constitutional Text, Founding-Era History, and the Indepen-dent-State-Legislature Theory,” see 57 Ga. L. Rev. 539 (2023).

laws.

Nothing in the language of U.S. Const., art. I, sec. IV gives support to a construction that would immunize state congressional apportionment laws which debase citizen’s right to vote from power of courts to protect constitutional rights of individuals from legislative destruction. Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 84 S. Ct. 526, 11 L. Ed. 2d 481, 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1773 (1964). Regulation of mixed state-federal

election.

The United States Constitution’s necessary and proper clause, U.S. Const., art. I, sec. VIII, cl. 18, along with U.S. Const., art. I, sec. IV, empowers Congress to regulate mixed federal-state elections, even if the federal candidate is unopposed. United States v. McCranie, 169 F.3d 723, 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 4103 (11th Cir. 1999).

Am. Jur. 2d.

16A Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 219. 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, §§ 3, 5, 10. 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, §§ 228, 269.

C.J.S.

29 C.J.S., Elections, §§ 11 et seq., 61, 319, 587. 91 C.J.S., United States, §§ 16, 19, 20.

ALR.

Application of equal protection principle recognized in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 121 S. Ct. 525, 148 L. Ed. 2d 388 (2000), to elections cases, 104 A.L.R.6th 547.