Ray v. Blair

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Ray v. Blair, 343 U.S. 214 (1952), is a major decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was a case on state political parties requiring of presidential electors to pledge to vote for the party's nominees before being certified as electors. It ruled that it is constitutional for states to allow parties to require such a pledge of their elector candidates, and that it was not a breach of a qualified candidate's rights to be denied this position if they refused the pledge. It officially defined state electors as representatives of their respective states, not the federal government. Therefore, state electors could be held accountable by their state if they did not vote as instructed. The case was argued on March 31, 1952 and decided on April 3, 1952. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Ray v. Blair

Argued: March 31, 1952. --- Decided: April 3, 1952

See 343 U.S. 214, 72 S.Ct. 654.

Messrs. Marx Leva, Washington, D.C., Harold M. Cook, Birmingham, Ala., for petitioner.

Mr. Horace C. Wilkinson, Birmingham, Ala., for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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