That part of Paragraph 452, Discipline 1939, which attempts to grant to Mission Conferences the right to elect delegates to Central Conferences is unconstitutional. This matter comes before the Judicial Council as an appeal by one fifth of the members of the General Conference. The principles involved in the decision of this question are very similar to the questions raised as to the constitutionality of another Paragraph of the Discipline as to the election of delegates to Jurisdictional Conference by Mission Conferences. In other words the Annual Conference only is the body to which is granted the right to elect delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conferences as well as Central Conferences. For the further reasons stated in the opinion already filed in the matter of the constitutionality of the election of delegates to Jurisdictional Conferences by Mission Conferences, it must be held that such provision of Paragraph 452 of the Discipline which attempts to grant the right to Mission Conferences to elect delegates to Central Conferences must be declared unconstitutional.
All members concur.
May 3, 1940.