Nomination and Election of President and Vice-President ...: Hearings ... on S.J. Res. 3, 9, 10, 27, 30, 31, and 53 ... March 16, 18, 25, April 1 and 6, 19551955 - 469 pages |
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12th amendment ballot bloc candidates for President Chairman choice choosing committee Congress congressional districts Connecticut Coudert counties delegates Democratic-Republican direct popular district system DOE JOHN DOE DONNELLY Eisenhower elec electing the President election of President electoral college electoral system electoral votes Estes Kefauver favor Federal Federalist Georgia gerrymandering Gossett Government highest number House of Representatives JOHN DOE JOHN Joint Resolution 31 legislative legislature majority Maryland minority parties Mundt-Coudert plan national convention nominating number of electoral number of votes Ohio plurality political parties polls popular election popular vote population present system President and Vice presidential candidate presidential elections presidential primary proportional representation received Resolution 30 Senate Joint Resolution Senator DANIEL Senator KEFAUVER Senator LANGER Senator MUNDT Solid South South Carolina South Dakota Southern splinter parties Tennessee ticket system tion two-party system United United States Senator Vermont Vice President Virginia voters votes cast whole number WILMERDING York
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Page 7 - 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 of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page 2 - 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...
Page 4 - 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.
Page 204 - ... whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.
Page 213 - States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...
Page 322 - Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall open and publish them in the presence of both Houses of the General Assembly. SEC. 5. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, shall be...
Page 185 - The express words of our holding were that "federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their equity powers in cases posing political issues arising from a state's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions.
Page 127 - On examining the first relation, it appears on one hand that the Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification of the people of America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose ; but on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation; but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong.
Page 6 - ... shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice president shall act as president, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.