Nomination and Election of President and Vice President: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on S. J. Res. 8 [and Others] ... |
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Page 2 - 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...
Page 7 - 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 63 - Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 256 - 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.
Page 202 - State shall be credited with such proportion of the electoral votes thereof as he received of the total vote of the electors therein for President. In making the computations, fractional numbers less than one onethousandth shall be disregarded. The person having the greatest number of electoral votes for President shall be President.
Page 198 - Congress shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress, no district electing more than one Representative.
Page 63 - ... 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.
Page 256 - Each state, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national, constitution.
Page 199 - Whether the electors should vote by ballot! or viva voce ; should assemble at this place or that place ; should be divided into districts, or all meet at one place; should all vote for all the Representatives, or all in a district vote for a number allotted to the district — these and many other points would depend on the Legislatures, and might materially effect the appointments.
Page 255 - In order to ascertain the real character of the government it may be considered in relation to the foundation on which it is to be established ; to the sources from which its ordinary powers are to be drawn ; to the operation of those powers ; to the extent of them; and to the authority by which future changes in the government are to be introduced.