Virginia v. West Virginia
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virginia-v-west-virginia-207-16729564
title:
Virginia v. West Virginia
text:
Virginia v. West Virginia, 78 U.S. 39 (1871), is a 6–3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that if a governor has discretion in the conduct of the election, the legislature is bound by his action and cannot undo the results based on fraud. The Court implicitly affirmed that the breakaway Virginia counties had received the necessary consent of both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States Congress to become a separate U.S. state. The Court also explicitly held tha
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1871 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_v._West_Virginia
date created:
2010-08-01T00:53:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T06:21:58Z
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