Question: Can the House select the winner in a Congressional election?

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Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members (US Constitution, Article I, Section 5, Clause 1)

Judging Elections - George Sweeney

Each house of Congress has the right to judge whether the election of members is fair, factual and that the member meets the qualifications specified in the Constitution. They are given the right and duty to investigate possible fraud in elections and assure that the elected member actually won the election. In Morgan v. United States (1986) it was declared that the House does not jurisdiction to choose the winner of an election beyond determination if the election was fair, was not the result of fraud and that the person election meet the qualifications stated in Article I, Section 2, Clause 2.

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Pelosi to seat Democrat though Republican won?
'Bottom line here is that nothing's off the table,'says spokesman for incoming speaker of House
--WorldNetDaily

Principle of Government #23 - Donald Conkey

Principle of Government #23: “A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.” Universal education was unheard of until 1647 when Massachusetts passed laws that required community’s of 50 families to set up free public grammar schools to teach the fundamentals of reading, writing, ciphering, history, geography, and Bible study, and township with 100 families or more to set up secondary schools in advanced studies to prepare boys for attendance at Harvard. Teaching children on the Constitution was introduced in 1828 with a popular textbook called “A Catechism on the Constitution” which contained questions and answers concerning the principles of the American political system.

Another popular textbook, the Bible, was called by Daniel Webster, “a book of faith, of doctrine, of religion, …that teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.” Remember – sound principles unite.

Source: Skousen’s 5000 Year Leap - p. 249 - 256

NOTE: Last week I wrote Jefferson died in 1825 – wrong, he died in 1826.

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