Proposed Change in Terms of President, Vice President, and Member of Congress,.: Hearing Before a Subcommittee...on S.J. Res. 8...Dec. 5, 19221923 - 14 pages |
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4th day 4th of March American Bar Association April 30 assemble in December Asso cast their votes Chairman and gentlemen commence Congress elected Congress shall meet Congress should meet Congress which counted Constitution should go constitutional amendment constitutional convention count the votes danger DATE OF PRESIDENTIAL eighteenth amendment elected in November election and inauguration Electoral College favor fixing the election framers go into effect gress January following January next thereafter joint resolution joint session JUDICIARY legislatures LEVI COOKE meet in joint Monday in December Monday in January old Continental Congress present Constitution President and Vice President elected PUTNAM S. J. RES second Monday Senator ASHURST Senator BRANDEGEE Senator Cummins Senator PEPPER Senator Shields session of Congress short session shorten the term subcommittee take effect term of four UNITED STATES SENATE Vice President vice presidential electors vote so cast votes for President Washington and Adams WILLIAM L
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Page 1 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein!, That the following amendment to the Constitution be and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution.
Page 3 - That the term of four years for which a President and Vice President shall be elected, shall, in all cases, commence on the fourth day of March next succeeding the day on which the votes of the electors shall have been given.
Page 1 - Joint Resolution. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 14 - the time (the States' elections) with which the elections of the national representatives would no doubt be made to coincide, would suit better with December than May," (II Farrand, p. 200). If it had been the old Congress who were to assemble the exact times when they were to be elected would have been immaterial. The fact that December was chosen as the date for the convening of Congress because the time suited better with the time of the election shows not only that it was intended that it should...
Page 13 - MEMORANDUM IN REGARD TO A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SHORTENING THE TIME WHICH ELAPSES BETWEEN THE ELECTION AND THE INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND ABOLISHING THE SHORT SESSION OF THE OLD CONGRESS PREPARED FOR SUBMISSION TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY OF THE SENATE. The American Bar Association is a conservative body whose members love and reverence the Constitution and are reluctant to change it. They were led to consider...
Page 6 - ... I will be glad, Mr. Chairman, if it is the will of the committee, to leave that publication here, and I ask then, as suggested by the chairman, for leave to incorporate it with my remarks. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be so ordered. (The report referred to is as follows :) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CHANGE OF DATE Of PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION. [To be presented at the meeting of the American Bar Association at Minneapolis, Minn., August 29. 30, and 31...
Page 14 - ... all the probable members of the Legislature being more or less connected with agriculture. Mr. RANDOLPH. The time is of no great moment now, as the Legislature can vary it. On looking into the Constitutions of the States, he found that the times of their elections, with which the elections of the National Representatives would no doubt be made to coincide, would suit better with December than May, and it was advisable to render our innovations as little incommodious as possible. On the question...
Page 6 - ... by the association. In 1921 at the request of the committee the association passed the following resolution: "Whereas the association at its last meeting passed a resolution favoring such action as would lead to the dates of the election and of the inauguration of the President of the United States being brought nearer together and to the abandonment of the short session of the old Congress; and "Whereas it is deemed desirable to express further the sense of this association that as far as practicable...
Page 14 - Resolved, That it is desirable: "1. That Congress should come into being immediately upon its election and that the ensuing session of Congress should be a session of the new Congress and not the old one. "2. That the electors should meet at the earliest practicable date to count the votes for President and Vice President. "3. That the Congress should meet at the earliest practicable date to count the votes for President and Vice President. "4. That the President and Vice President should be inaugurated...
Page 4 - ... that the term of four years for which a President and Vice President shall be elected shall in all cases commence on the 4th day of March next succeeding the day on which the votes of the electors shall have been given." (Act of Mar. 1, 1798, 1 Stat. L. 239 et seq.) As Washington and Adams took their oaths of office on April 30, 1789, this act shortened their terms by nearly two months. The act, however, was never called in question. In this curious way it came about that in the case of the first...