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    This Supreme Court case addresses the authentication of bills that have passed Congress. The Court held that the signing of an enrolled bill by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, in open session, is an official certification that the bill passed Congress. Once the bill is then signed by the President and deposited in the State Department, its passage cannot be challenged through references to the congressional journals.

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    This Supreme Court case addresses the authentication of bills that have passed Congress. The Court held that the signing of an enrolled bill by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, in open session, is an official certification that the bill passed Congress. Once the bill is then signed by the President and deposited in the State Department, its passage cannot be challenged through references to the congressional journals.

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    Field v. Clark

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    This Supreme Court case addresses the authentication of bills that have passed Congress. The Court held that the signing of an enrolled bill by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, in open session, is an official certification that the bill passed Congress. Once the bill is then signed by the President and deposited in the State Department, its passage cannot be challenged through references to the congressional journals.

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    U.S.

    Supreme Court
    Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892)
    Field v. Clark
    Nos. 1052, 1049, 1050
    Argued November 30, December 1-2, 1891
    Decided February 29, 1892
    143 U.S. 649
    APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
    STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
    Syllabus
    The signing by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and by the President of the Senate, in open session, of an enrolled
    bill is an official attestation by the two Houses of such bill as one that has passed Congress, and when the bill thus attested
    receives the approval of the President and is deposited in the Department of State according to law, its authentication as a bill
    that has passed Congress is complete and unimpeachable.
    Page 143 U. S. 650
    It is not competent to show from the journals of either House of Congress that an act so authenticated, approved and deposited,
    did not pass in the precise form in which it was signed by the presiding officers of the two Houses and approved by the
    President.
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