Their main message, the report's authors say, is to place the goal of holding effective elections ahead of the goal of completing them by September.
"The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof," Section 4 of Article I provides.
Article I seems to back up this claim: "The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives," Section 4 reads, "shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof".
The Constitution's elections clause says that states shall prescribe "the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives," but that "Congress may at any time by law make or alter" those regulations.
They cited the Elections Clause in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof".
The Arizona case hinged on a single word in the U.S. Constitution, which says that "the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof".
It says: "The times, places and manners of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations".
Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution gives state legislatures power to choose "the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives," but adds that "Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations".
Capacity refers to the settlor's ability to create a trust in the first place; generally speaking, anyone capable of holding property can create a trust.
