Smith v. Robins

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• explaining that a plaintiff who asked for the cancellation of a Secretary of State’s proclamation “ha[d] no interest in the prayer of his 13 petition” because cancellation “would not affect the validity of the amendment”
• no discretion to refuse publication once official notice received, as publication is merely “ministerial act”
• “It is the approval of the requisite number of states, not the proclamation, that gives vitality to the amendment and makes it a part of the supreme law of the land.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).