The Electoral College and Direct Election: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, ... : SupplementU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 537 pages |
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... principle . They were not visionary idealists and theorists . They were emi- nently sober and prudent men with vast experience in government . They took very seriously the problems as posed by the democratic form , particularly the ...
... principle . They were not visionary idealists and theorists . They were emi- nently sober and prudent men with vast experience in government . They took very seriously the problems as posed by the democratic form , particularly the ...
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... principle for the national legislature as well as for the executive . To do the one without the other and , in par- ticular , to make the President the only recipient of an all - national mandate in the Nation's history would ...
... principle for the national legislature as well as for the executive . To do the one without the other and , in par- ticular , to make the President the only recipient of an all - national mandate in the Nation's history would ...
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... principles , are that it provides us with a broad cross - sectional support - that it demands the cross- sectional support for the Presidency , and it supports the two - party system . Senator SCOTT . When you speak of a cross ...
... principles , are that it provides us with a broad cross - sectional support - that it demands the cross- sectional support for the Presidency , and it supports the two - party system . Senator SCOTT . When you speak of a cross ...
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... principle of the American system of government is the principle of the concurrent majority under which coalition - building and compromise create broad cross- sectional majorities that provide moderate government and are resistant to ...
... principle of the American system of government is the principle of the concurrent majority under which coalition - building and compromise create broad cross- sectional majorities that provide moderate government and are resistant to ...
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... principle of democratic regimes as well as govern . The American idea of democracy is not the populistic principle of the un- limited sovereignty of the majority , and particularly not of the unlimited sov- ereignty of all - national ...
... principle of democratic regimes as well as govern . The American idea of democracy is not the populistic principle of the un- limited sovereignty of the majority , and particularly not of the unlimited sov- ereignty of all - national ...
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40 percent abolish the electoral American Bar Association apportionment BAILEY ballot Banzhaf Benjamin Harrison bias biases Birch Bayh Chairman Committee Congress congressional constitutional amendment contingent election conventional count democracy democratic direct election direct popular election direct popular vote district elec elected President electing the President electoral college system electoral majority electoral system electoral votes equal faithless elector favor federal Ford framers George Wallace Gerald Ford gerrymander going groups Grover Cleveland House of Representatives Jimmy Carter legislatures major parties majoritarian minority Nixon number of electoral number of votes Ohio outcome political parties polls popular plurality population present system President and Vice presidential candidates presidential election proposed question received Republican Senator BAYH Senator WALLOP subcommittee ticket tion turnout two-party system U.S. Senate unit rule Vice President voter coalitions votes cast Wallace winner winner-take-all Wyoming York
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Page 393 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 97 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions...
Page 407 - Massachusetts 23 Michigan 24 Minnesota 25 Mississippi 26 Missouri 27 Montana 28 Nebraska 29 Nevada 30 New Hampshire 31 New Jersey 32 New Mexico 33 New York 34 North Carolina 35 North Dakota 36 Ohio 37 Oklahoma 38...
Page 414 - Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Page 407 - Different localities 1. Alabama 2. Alaska 3. Arizona 4. Arkansas. 5. California 6. Colorado 7. Connecticut 8. Delaware 9. District of Columbia.. 10. Florida 11.
Page 392 - Baker v. Carr, 369 US 186 (1962), Reynolds v. Sims, 377 US 533 (1964), but in cases overturning State laws that imposed financial burdens (see Harper v.
Page 398 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Page 510 - An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers.
Page 21 - IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY 3, 1985 Mr. MATTINGLY (for himself, Mr. EVANS, Mr. THURMOND, and Mr. ARMSTRONG) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow the President to veto items of appropriation. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives...