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FAIRCHILD v. HUGHES

No. 148.

258 U.S. 126 (1922)

FAIRCHILD v. HUGHES, AS SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William L. Marbury and Mr. Thomas F. Cadwalader, with whom Mr. Everett P. Wheeler and Mr. Waldo G. Morse were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Robert P. Reeder and Mr. W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

On July 7, 1920, Charles S. Fairchild of New York brought this suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. The prayers of the bill are that "the so-called Suffrage Amendment [the Nineteenth to the Federal Constitution] be declared unconstitutional and void"; that the Secretary of State be restrained from issuing any proclamation declaring that...

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