Electing the President: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 1, S.J. Res. 2, S.J. Res. 4, S.J. Res. 12, S.J. Res. 18, S.J. Res. 20, S.J. Res. 25, S.J. Res. 30, S.J. Res. 31, S.J. Res. 33, S.J. Res. 71, and S.J. Res. 72, to Amend the Constitution Relating to Electoral College Reform, January 23 and 24, March 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, and 21, April 30, May 1 and 2, 1969U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 1053 頁 |
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... Senator BAYH . Can the Senator , in all his wisdom , actually consider a practical case in which two of our States can by themselves elect a President of the United States ? We have got to get right down to the facts . Senator ERVIN ...
... Senator BAYH . Can the Senator , in all his wisdom , actually consider a practical case in which two of our States can by themselves elect a President of the United States ? We have got to get right down to the facts . Senator ERVIN ...
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... Senator BAYH . May I explore that ? In your statement you did men- tion the representative aspect of your role . You said you represented the people of your district . As you know , however , we don't have a dis- trict system , we have ...
... Senator BAYH . May I explore that ? In your statement you did men- tion the representative aspect of your role . You said you represented the people of your district . As you know , however , we don't have a dis- trict system , we have ...
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... Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. Dr. BAILEY . I think so . Senator BAYH . In other words , despite the fact that we have radio and television , despite the fact that over these 200 years we ...
... Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. Dr. BAILEY . I think so . Senator BAYH . In other words , despite the fact that we have radio and television , despite the fact that over these 200 years we ...
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... Senator BAYH . But you did say that under the present system , the complete freedom of the elector , because of certain things that were making it more difficult for the individual voter to make the right judgment , that this ...
... Senator BAYH . But you did say that under the present system , the complete freedom of the elector , because of certain things that were making it more difficult for the individual voter to make the right judgment , that this ...
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... Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. Senator BAYH . Are you at all concerned about the prospect that a President of any party , American Independent Party , Republican , Democrat , Socialist ...
... Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. Senator BAYH . Are you at all concerned about the prospect that a President of any party , American Independent Party , Republican , Democrat , Socialist ...
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第 188 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 771 頁 - Rather, they must look to the "traditions and [collective] conscience of our people" to determine whether a principle is "so rooted [there] ... as to be ranked as fundamental." Snyder v. Massachusetts, 291 US 97, 105. The inquiry is whether a right involved "is of such a character that it cannot be denied without violating those 'fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions' . . . .
第 188 頁 - ... 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 until a President or Vice...
第 586 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 187 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 379 頁 - If reference be had to its use, in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another.
第 377 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 188 頁 - 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...
第 366 頁 - No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
第 382 頁 - Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government; it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land.