Electing the President: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments...91-1, January 23, 24, March 10-13, 20, 21, April 30, May 1, 2, 1969 |
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... district plan . The office of elector is retained with a binding declaration by the elector to vote for certain candidates for President and Vice President . It requires a majority of electoral votes . In any event no candidate receives ...
... district plan . The office of elector is retained with a binding declaration by the elector to vote for certain candidates for President and Vice President . It requires a majority of electoral votes . In any event no candidate receives ...
第 8 頁
... plan and the district plan that concerns me more than any other . I don't know whether the Senate has any comment as to how this can be avoided , because I know of no way you can guarantee that the man that has the most votes is elected ...
... plan and the district plan that concerns me more than any other . I don't know whether the Senate has any comment as to how this can be avoided , because I know of no way you can guarantee that the man that has the most votes is elected ...
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... district plan and Senator Ervin's and Senator Sparkman's proportional plan . I am strongly opposed to complete abolition of the Electoral System at this point in our Nation's history , but I do favor revisions in that system . There is ...
... district plan and Senator Ervin's and Senator Sparkman's proportional plan . I am strongly opposed to complete abolition of the Electoral System at this point in our Nation's history , but I do favor revisions in that system . There is ...
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... plan . The office of elector is retained with a binding declaration by the elector to vote for certain candidates ... district plan in the 1960 and 1964 elections , the results would be dif- ferent . This Subcommittee was given these ...
... plan . The office of elector is retained with a binding declaration by the elector to vote for certain candidates ... district plan in the 1960 and 1964 elections , the results would be dif- ferent . This Subcommittee was given these ...
第 28 頁
... plan and the direct election plan , I hope members of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee will agree with me ... district plan and your plan , and it is a very basis on which divergent views can compromise because it is between ...
... plan and the direct election plan , I hope members of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee will agree with me ... district plan and your plan , and it is a very basis on which divergent views can compromise because it is between ...
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第 618 頁 - 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...
第 776 頁 - 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...
第 372 頁 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
第 178 頁 - 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 until a President shall have qualified; and the 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...
第 177 頁 - 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...
第 367 頁 - We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding' (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407)— 'a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
第 372 頁 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department and to tread on legislative ground.
第 363 頁 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
第 367 頁 - This government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle that it can exercise only the powers granted to it would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending before the people, found it necessary to urge. That principle is now universally admitted.
第 371 頁 - necessary" was used in that strict and rigorous sense for which the counsel for the State of Maryland contend, it would be an extraordinary departure from the usual course of the human mind, as exhibited in composition, to add a word, the only possible effect of which is to qualify that strict and rigorous meaning...