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... method of transmission as to spend this $ 14,000 and hire messengers . There have been cases where the messenger did not appear . Then , if for some reason or another a certificate did not arrive by the fourth Monday in January , the ...
... method of transmission as to spend this $ 14,000 and hire messengers . There have been cases where the messenger did not appear . Then , if for some reason or another a certificate did not arrive by the fourth Monday in January , the ...
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... method , but you have to put in some other method . Mr. CABLE . Oh , yes . Mr. GIFFORD . I do not believe you can amend that way . Mr. CABLE . Well , my idea was this : Strike out that $ 14,000 and insert , say , $ 1,000 , and provide ...
... method , but you have to put in some other method . Mr. CABLE . Oh , yes . Mr. GIFFORD . I do not believe you can amend that way . Mr. CABLE . Well , my idea was this : Strike out that $ 14,000 and insert , say , $ 1,000 , and provide ...
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... method for the transmission of these certificates to the seat of government . I think your time limit is exceedingly short in which to get by with it , though . Mr. CABLE . Here section 141 provides : Whenever a certificate of votes ...
... method for the transmission of these certificates to the seat of government . I think your time limit is exceedingly short in which to get by with it , though . Mr. CABLE . Here section 141 provides : Whenever a certificate of votes ...
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... method of procedure , and learn how to attend to his duties . He can not do it in a two - year term . So a great many men fail to be reelected after they have served one term . As a rule , the hardest campaign a man has is the campaign ...
... method of procedure , and learn how to attend to his duties . He can not do it in a two - year term . So a great many men fail to be reelected after they have served one term . As a rule , the hardest campaign a man has is the campaign ...
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... methods while the English have advanced . But our method that we adopted at that time was a vast improvement upon all world - prevailing con- ditions then . The fault I have to find is in not improving upon the model we had laid down ...
... methods while the English have advanced . But our method that we adopted at that time was a vast improvement upon all world - prevailing con- ditions then . The fault I have to find is in not improving upon the model we had laid down ...
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Page 21 - Section 4 The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them...
Page 13 - 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 18 - The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified: and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Page 22 - Although an emergency may not call into life a power which has never lived, nevertheless emergency may afford a reason for the exertion of a living power already enjoyed.
Page 44 - And they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President and of all persons voted for as Vice...
Page 16 - 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 of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page 8 - It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements that were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow citizens from the general mass will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation.
Page 7 - Congress passed an act declaring, section 12, "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.