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 - 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 5 - 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 49 - 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 228 - 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 2 - 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 49 - ... 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 228 - 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 177 - 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 228 - State must bind the minority ; and the will of the majority must be determined either by a comparison of the individual votes, or by considering the will of the majority of the States as evidence of the will of a majority of the People of the United States.
Page 139 - ... if one party will call to its aid all the resources which vice can give, and if the other (however pressing the emergency) confines itself within all the ordinary forms of delicacy and decorum.