Case Name: MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Court: Massachusetts House of Representatives
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Rep. Cont. El. 35
Docket Number: 
Parties: MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of controverted elections in the House of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Volume: 1
Pages: 35–35

Head Matter:
1792 — 1793.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
Members elect of congress are not thereby disqualified to hold seats as members of the legislature in this commonwealth.

Opinion:
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.