Case ID: rep-cont-el_1/html/0035-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1792 — 1793.
    MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
    Members elect of congress are not thereby disqualified to hold seats as members of the legislature in this commonwealth.
   The house went into a committee of the whole, on the subject of the constitutionality and expediency of members of congress elect holding a seat. The committee reported, that, in their opinion, the question should not be gone into of the expediency of members elect holding a seat: and, on the question, whether members of congress elect were constitutionally disqualified, it passed in the negative.

On the question of the acceptance of this report, it passed in the affirmative, seventy-five out of one hundred and fifteen members present, being in favor of its acceptance. [By the eighth article of the amendments to the constitution, it is now provided, that no senator or representative shall continue to hold his office as such, after being elected a member of the congress of the United States, and accepting that trust; but the acceptance of such trust shall be taken and deemed to be a resignation of his said office.] 
      
       13 J. H. 357.