Presidential Nominating Process: Hearings Held Before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, March 20, May 8, 1986, Washington, DC.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 186 pages |
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... look forward to a discussion of the very narrow concerns State by State , candidate by candidate , in terms of regional primaries . Mr. SWIFT . With that , we are ready to begin . It is a great deal of pleasure to welcome both Mr ...
... look forward to a discussion of the very narrow concerns State by State , candidate by candidate , in terms of regional primaries . Mr. SWIFT . With that , we are ready to begin . It is a great deal of pleasure to welcome both Mr ...
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... look at the geographic regions ; my colleague , Bill Nelson , does the same - some folks view the United States from the West looking East , and some view it from the East looking west in terms of how you group States together . Some of ...
... look at the geographic regions ; my colleague , Bill Nelson , does the same - some folks view the United States from the West looking East , and some view it from the East looking west in terms of how you group States together . Some of ...
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... look at the tremendous revolution that has occurred in the South with regard to its patterns of the past , and it has come out pretty good ; so , sometimes we learn by having somebody force things upon us , as painful as it may be at ...
... look at the tremendous revolution that has occurred in the South with regard to its patterns of the past , and it has come out pretty good ; so , sometimes we learn by having somebody force things upon us , as painful as it may be at ...
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... look favorably on a system of regional primaries and I urge you to report legislation to the House which will begin to being some sanity and order to the way we nominate our Presidents . I want to note in closing that it has been ...
... look favorably on a system of regional primaries and I urge you to report legislation to the House which will begin to being some sanity and order to the way we nominate our Presidents . I want to note in closing that it has been ...
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... look . You talked about squint . They would sort of squint their eyes and look at me . This is radical politics here . But it's time for radical politics to - in your words and the chairman's words , get some rationality and bring , out ...
... look . You talked about squint . They would sort of squint their eyes and look at me . This is radical politics here . But it's time for radical politics to - in your words and the chairman's words , get some rationality and bring , out ...
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Page 158 - President both become vacant, the electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.
Page 159 - Constitution applies to a new subject matter, it is of little significance that it is one with which the framers were not familiar. For in setting up an enduring framework of government they undertook to carry out for the indefinite future and in all the vicissitudes of the changing affairs of men, those fundamental purposes which the instrument itself discloses. Hence we read its words, not as we read legislative codes which are subject to continuous revision with the changing course of events,...
Page 159 - times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives.' It cannot be doubted that these comprehensive words embrace authority to provide a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and rorrnpt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns...
Page 158 - Time of election. The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
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Page 161 - ... manner in which their appointment shall be made. It deals with political committees organized for the purpose of influencing elections in two or more states, and with branches or subsidiaries of national committees, and excludes from its operation state or local committees. Its operation, therefore, is confined to situations which, if not beyond the power of the state to deal with at all, are beyond its power to deal with adequately. It in no sense invades any exclusive state power.
Page 160 - To say that Congress is without power to pass appropriate legislation to safeguard such an election from the improper use of money to influence the result is to deny to the nation in a vital particular the power of self-protection. Congress undoubtedly, possesses that power, as it possesses every other power essential to preserve the departments and institutions of the general government from impairment or destruction, whether threatened by force or by corruption.
Page 155 - With respect to the other point, it Was thought that the regulation of time, place, and manner, of electing the representatives, should be uniform throughout the continent. Some states might regulate the elections on the principles of equality, and others might regulate them otherwise. This diversity would be obviously unjust.
Page 90 - Benjamin I. Page, Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections: Rational Man and Electoral Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978). He argues that "party cleavages" distinguish the party at the candidate and mass levels. 6. Arthur H. Miller and Martin P. Wattenberg, "Throwing the Rascals Out: Policy and Performance Evaluations of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1980...