Electing the President: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments...91-1, January 23, 24, March 10-13, 20, 21, April 30, May 1, 2, 19691969 - 1053 páginas |
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... give the Federal City complex , not only a tre- mendous boost but even greater influence and control of the election of the President and Vice President and it would reduce substantially the influence of the smaller States . The present ...
... give the Federal City complex , not only a tre- mendous boost but even greater influence and control of the election of the President and Vice President and it would reduce substantially the influence of the smaller States . The present ...
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... give these observations early in the hearing . Senator BAYH . I appreciate your coming . I don't know how pressed you are , whether you care to carry this colloquy a bit further or not . Senator DOMINICK . I would be delighted to ...
... give these observations early in the hearing . Senator BAYH . I appreciate your coming . I don't know how pressed you are , whether you care to carry this colloquy a bit further or not . Senator DOMINICK . I would be delighted to ...
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... give up . If not , we are going to end up with no change at all . This is a problem which concerns me , despite the fact we all want change . As I view the way the present system actually works , it will be harder to get large States to ...
... give up . If not , we are going to end up with no change at all . This is a problem which concerns me , despite the fact we all want change . As I view the way the present system actually works , it will be harder to get large States to ...
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... give the Federal - City complex an even greater influence and control of the election of the President and Vice President and reduce sub- stantially the influence of the smaller states . The present system is weighted in favor of the ...
... give the Federal - City complex an even greater influence and control of the election of the President and Vice President and reduce sub- stantially the influence of the smaller states . The present system is weighted in favor of the ...
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... give a cursory examination of it at the national level . I am hopeful that we can bring a greater degree of expertise to these hearings . We want to take into consideration the 1968 elections . I think this will shed some further light ...
... give a cursory examination of it at the national level . I am hopeful that we can bring a greater degree of expertise to these hearings . We want to take into consideration the 1968 elections . I think this will shed some further light ...
Términos y frases comunes
American argument Bailey ballot Birch Bayh Chairman citizens committee Congress congressional district constitutional amendment contest count Court Democratic direct election direct popular election direct popular vote District of Columbia district plan district system elec electing a President electing the President electoral college system electoral reform electoral system electoral votes fact faithless elector favor federal system gerrymandering going House of Representatives KLEINDIENST legislative legislatures majority minority North Carolina North Dakota number of electoral number of votes person plurality political party population present system President and Vice presidential election problem proportional plan proportional system proposal Puerto Rico question ratified Republican result runoff election S.J. Res Senator BAYH Senator Cook Senator ERVIN Senator HRUSKA Senator THURMOND statement subcommittee supra tion two-party system U.S. Senator unit rule Vice President vote for President voters votes cast voting power winner York
Pasajes populares
Página 618 - 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 776 - 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 372 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Página 178 - 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 177 - 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 367 - We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding' (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407)— 'a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Página 372 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 363 - States, with a request that it might " 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 367 - 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.
Página 371 - necessary" was used in that strict and rigorous sense for which the counsel for the State of Maryland contend, it would be an extraordinary departure from the usual course of the human mind, as exhibited in composition, to add a word, the only possible effect of which is to qualify that strict and rigorous meaning...