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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... tion of the Best Congressional District , Dallas , Tex . Jaffe , Mr. Michael D. , general counsel , Liberty Lobby , Washington , D.C. Jones , Sara Roddis . Kleppe , Hon . Thomas , a U.S. Representative in Congress from the State of ...
... tion of the Best Congressional District , Dallas , Tex . Jaffe , Mr. Michael D. , general counsel , Liberty Lobby , Washington , D.C. Jones , Sara Roddis . Kleppe , Hon . Thomas , a U.S. Representative in Congress from the State of ...
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... tion left is direct popular vote . Now , the contingency of the last election being thrown into the House under the present system was fraught with dangers , many real , and others imagined . The fact remains that the clear possibility ...
... tion left is direct popular vote . Now , the contingency of the last election being thrown into the House under the present system was fraught with dangers , many real , and others imagined . The fact remains that the clear possibility ...
第 21 頁
... tion that was almost unchallenged until 1948 - the tradition that electors on a party slate shall honor their party's candidate for President . There were many who felt that this commitment was binding in North Carolina because of that ...
... tion that was almost unchallenged until 1948 - the tradition that electors on a party slate shall honor their party's candidate for President . There were many who felt that this commitment was binding in North Carolina because of that ...
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... tion 1 . Senate Joint Resolution 1 would substitute the concept of having the President and Vice President represent those who happen to vote on the particular election day , for the principle established by the framers of having them ...
... tion 1 . Senate Joint Resolution 1 would substitute the concept of having the President and Vice President represent those who happen to vote on the particular election day , for the principle established by the framers of having them ...
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... tion of the present system by direct election advocates will , I feel , place a substantial obstacle on the way of electoral college reform . Direct popular election might also result in uniform qualifications for voting in all of the ...
... tion of the present system by direct election advocates will , I feel , place a substantial obstacle on the way of electoral college reform . Direct popular election might also result in uniform qualifications for voting in all of the ...
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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...