Electing the President: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 1053 páginas Considers (91) S.J. Res. 1, (91) S.J. Res. 2, (91) S.J. Res. 4, (91) S.J. Res. 12, (91) S.J. Res. 18, (91) S.J. Res. 20, (91) S.J. Res. 25, (91) S.J. Res. 30, (91) S.J. Res. 31, (91) S.J. Res. 33, (91) S.J. Res. 71, (91) S.J. Res. 72, (91) S.J. Res. 76. |
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... equal right of all Amercians to elect him with- out respect to their place of residence . I feel the Senator from Tennessee hit on a critical election inequality which presently exists in pointing out the fact that many people are ...
... equal right of all Amercians to elect him with- out respect to their place of residence . I feel the Senator from Tennessee hit on a critical election inequality which presently exists in pointing out the fact that many people are ...
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... equal to the number of Representatives and Senators from that State . As a result of the great compromise which made the formation of the United States possible , each State was entitled to at least two electoral votes because ...
... equal to the number of Representatives and Senators from that State . As a result of the great compromise which made the formation of the United States possible , each State was entitled to at least two electoral votes because ...
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... equal time from the National Broadcasting Television Network to reply to the remarks of Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara on television and you were never granted that . Dr. BAILEY . That is right . Senator THURMOND . Did you ...
... equal time from the National Broadcasting Television Network to reply to the remarks of Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara on television and you were never granted that . Dr. BAILEY . That is right . Senator THURMOND . Did you ...
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... equal time from the National Broadcasting Television Network to reply to the derogatory remarks made about me by Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara on television , and a copy of this telegram was sent to the Chairman of the ...
... equal time from the National Broadcasting Television Network to reply to the derogatory remarks made about me by Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara on television , and a copy of this telegram was sent to the Chairman of the ...
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... equal time from the National Broadcasting Tele- vision Network to answer the derogatory remarks made about me by Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara . Sincerely yours , LLOYD W. BAILEY , M.D. COPY OF THE STATEMENT I MADE WHEN I ...
... equal time from the National Broadcasting Tele- vision Network to answer the derogatory remarks made about me by Senator Muskie and Representative O'Hara . Sincerely yours , LLOYD W. BAILEY , M.D. COPY OF THE STATEMENT I MADE WHEN I ...
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Página 186 - 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...
Página 761 - 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' . . . .
Página 186 - 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...
Página 373 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards 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...
Página 376 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people, In form and in substance it emanates from them, Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit...
Página 570 - 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...
Página 185 - 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...
Página 376 - This mode of proceeding was adopted : and by the convention, by congress, and by the state legislatures, the instrument was submitted to the people. They acted ui>on it in the only manner in which they can act safely, effectively and wisely, on such a subject, by assembling in convention. It is true, they assembled in their several states — and where else should they have assembled? No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding...
Página 385 - They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent on the States .... The Court has bestowed on this subject its most deliberate consideration.
Página 382 - 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.