Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications for Voting: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. J. Res. 1 [and Others]...

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S J Res 28
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Exhibits and MiscellaneousContinued Page
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S J Res 54
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The Beat
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S J Res 58
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Statement of Page
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Testimony
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committee
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suggestions Although unable to vote for President until recently I was a Taft
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Memorandum to Hon Karl E Mundt from Samuel H Still legislative
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Statements accompanying political scientists questionnaire submitted
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Duties and Powers of Presidential Electors by Mollie Z Margolin Page
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The Electoral Process and the Power of the States by Donald M
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Will the South Decide the 60 Election? excerpts from an article entitled
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firmed my interpretation of the State constitution I was an elected member
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Electing a President Still as Uncertain as Ever by J R Wiggins reprinted
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S J Res 102
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convention in Spokane Wash last June where we were pledged to the Nixon
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Provisions of the U S Constitution governing election of President
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The Ideal Method of Selecting the President of the United States
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Presidential Elections 17881928 an excerpt from Political Parties
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Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States during
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The Resolution of Electoral Deadlocks by the House of Representatives
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Residence Requirements for Voting by Walter Kravitz History
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The Iron Curtain Around the Ballot Box by Eugene Burdick reprinted
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Specifications for a Model State Presidential Primary Law by Paul
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Performance and Potential of Presidential Primary Laws by Richard
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The Convention System of Ratification excerpt from an unpublished
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Index
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Hon Ralph Yarborough a U S Senator from the State of Texas
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Statement of Page
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Committee releases us from voting for Mr Nixon and Lodge That is where
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Changes in Poll Tax Requirements in Certain States During
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Residence requirements
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Other requirements
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Persons disqualified from voting
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Alabama
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Alaska
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Pagina 20 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Pagina 7 - The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State...
Pagina 20 - The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. SECTION 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Pagina 97 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Pagina 769 - Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Pagina 7 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Pagina 7 - Section 1 The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Pagina 678 - Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom .shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes...
Pagina 678 - Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received.
Pagina 20 - A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous state ; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided...

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