Direct Popular Election of the President and Vice President of the United States: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 28 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 665 páginas |
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25th amendment 40 percent abolish the electoral advantage allocations American American Bar Association American Jewish Congress argument BAILEY ballot believe Birch Bayh black vote Carter Chairman committee Congress Congressional Contingency Election convention DATT Democratic direct election direct election plan direct popular election direct popular vote effect elec electing the President electoral college system electoral system electoral votes fact faithless elector Farm Bureau favor FEERICK Ford George Wallace going groups House of Representatives Illinois issue Jewish JORDAN legislature major parties minority Nixon number of electoral plurality polls population possibility present system President and Vice Presidential election proposal question reform Republican runoff Senator BAYH Senator HATCH Senator SIMPSON Senator THURMOND SQUADRON subcommittee testimony Thank tion turnout two-party system U.S. Senate unit rule V. O. Key Vice President vote system voters votes cast voting power Wallace winner Wyoming York
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Página 315 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Página 328 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think ; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Página 23 - The proposed Constitution, therefore, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national ; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national ; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal ; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national ; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither...
Página 43 - 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 2 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 3 (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the...
Página 328 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 421 - Executive power in a single person, tho' he was not for giving him the power of war and peace. A single man would feel the greatest responsibility and administer the public affairs best. Mr SHERMAN said he considered the Executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will of the Legislature into effect...
Página 439 - State, exerted within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions...
Página 70 - Wechsler, The Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Role of the States in the Composition and Selection of the National Government, 54 Colum.
Página 327 - Revolution of 1800; for that was as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 was in its form...