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]...U.S.GovernmentPrint.Office, 1961 |
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Pagina 43
... method of choosing electors was followed . Electors were chosen in a variety of ways : election by legislatures ... methods were used with States changing from one to the other . In 1836 , the general ticket system was used in every ...
... method of choosing electors was followed . Electors were chosen in a variety of ways : election by legislatures ... methods were used with States changing from one to the other . In 1836 , the general ticket system was used in every ...
Pagina 48
... method of expressing the popular will . Senate Joint Resolution 12 is , in my opinion and the opinion of the many who support it , the only simple method by which each voter in every State will have the same voting weight in electing a ...
... method of expressing the popular will . Senate Joint Resolution 12 is , in my opinion and the opinion of the many who support it , the only simple method by which each voter in every State will have the same voting weight in electing a ...
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... method is the fact that the Congress itself in the Con- stitution and under the Federal statute , meeting together as we did to count the electoral votes , would have the power and the duty to provide that electoral votes not chosen in ...
... method is the fact that the Congress itself in the Con- stitution and under the Federal statute , meeting together as we did to count the electoral votes , would have the power and the duty to provide that electoral votes not chosen in ...
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... method . Oversimplified , this proposal is to divide the electoral vote of a State according to the percentage of the total vote in the State that each candidate receives . For example , Maine has five electoral votes . If the ...
... method . Oversimplified , this proposal is to divide the electoral vote of a State according to the percentage of the total vote in the State that each candidate receives . For example , Maine has five electoral votes . If the ...
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... method is that it would provide a far more accurate division of popular strength between the candidates than does the present system . Against these arguments for the proportional method are the arguments that can be expected against ...
... method is that it would provide a far more accurate division of popular strength between the candidates than does the present system . Against these arguments for the proportional method are the arguments that can be expected against ...
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12th amendment 86th Congress Alabama American ballot campaign candidate receives Chairman citizens committee Congress congressional districts constitutional amendment Court delegates Democratic direct popular district system elec electoral college system electoral districts electoral system electoral votes ESTES KEFAUVER favor Federal gerrymandering greatest number highest number House of Representatives IRWIN Joint Resolution 12 Kennedy KIRBY legislation legislatures ment national convention Nixon nomination number of electoral number of popular number of votes Oklahoma percent person pledged plurality political party poll tax popular vote population present system President and Vice presidential candidate presidential electors presidential primary primary election proportional qualifications reform Republican residence requirements Roosevelt S.J. RES Senate Joint Resolution Senator KEATING Senator KEFAUVER Senator MUNDT South Dakota statement subcommittee ticket tion two-party system U.S. Senate unit votes unpledged electors Vice President voters votes cast votes for President whole number York
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Pagina 30 - 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 107 - 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 12 - 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 30 - 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 29 - 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 11 - 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 30 - Section 3 If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President...
Pagina 30 - Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Pagina 769 - In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one, since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.
Pagina 681 - If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a state shall have been received by the President of the Senate...