COLEMAN v. MILLER

No. 7.

307 U.S. 433 (1939)

COLEMAN ET AL. v. MILLER, SECRETARY OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued April 17, 18, 1939.

Decided June 5, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Robert Stone and Rolla W. Coleman, on the reargument and on the original argument, for petitioners.

Mr. Clarence V. Beck on the reargument, and with Mr. E.R. Sloan on the original argument, for respondents.

By special leave of Court, Solicitor General Jackson, with whom Mr. Paul A. Freund was on the brief, argued the case on behalf of the United States, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

By leave of Court, Messrs. Orland S. Loomis, Attorney General of Wisconsin, Mortimer Levitan and Newell S. Boardman, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief on behalf of that State, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.


Opinion of the Court by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES, announced by MR. JUSTICE STONE.

In June, 1924, the Congress proposed an amendment to the Constitution, known as the Child Labor Amendment.1 In January, 1925, the Legislature of Kansas adopted a resolution rejecting the proposed amendment and a certified copy of the resolution was sent to the Secretary of State of the United States. In January, 1937, a resolution known as "Senate Concurrent...

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