The Essentials of American Constitutional Law

by Francis Newton Thorpe

[237] Id., 168.

[238] Mississippi v. Johnson, 4 Wallace, 475 (1866).

[239] Idem.

[240] Mississippi v. Johnson, 4 Wallace, 475 (1866).

[241] Many cases; see State ex rel. v. Stone, 120 Missouri, 428 (1894), in which most of the cases are cited. But mandamus will issue to an appointee of the executive, a ministerial officer, to perform a ministerial act. U. S. ex rel. Daly, 28 App. D. C., 552; 35 Wash. Law Rep., 81; Garfield v. U. S. ex rel. Frost, 30 App. D. C., 165; 35 Wash. Law Rep., 771; Griffin v. U. S., ex rel. Le Cuyer, 30 App. D. C., 291; 36 Wash. Law Rep., 103; Drake v. U. S., ex rel. Bates, 30 App. D. C., 312; 36 Wash. Law Rep., 140; U. S. ex rel. Newcomb Motor Co., 30 App. D. C., 464; 36 Wash. Law Rep., 150; also 36 Wash. Law Rep., 681. Also U. S. ex rel. v. Black, 128 U. S., 40 (1888).

[242] United States ex rel. v. Black, 128 U. S., 40; and see the cases cited in preceding note.

[243] Art. iii., 1: 1.

[244] For the history of this amendment see the author’s Constitutional History of the United States, ii., 264–290.

[245] See Iredell’s dissenting opinion in Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dallas 419 (1793).

[246] The Federalist, No. xvi.