Single Six-year Term for President: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments..., 92-1, on S.J. Res. 77..., October 28 and 29, 19711972 - 247 páginas |
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... passing it , and actually help in its imple- mentation by the relevant Government agencies . There seems to be a popular consensus that 4 years is really not enough time to do all this . Therefore the 6 - year term has been suggested ...
... passing it , and actually help in its imple- mentation by the relevant Government agencies . There seems to be a popular consensus that 4 years is really not enough time to do all this . Therefore the 6 - year term has been suggested ...
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... passed providing for a term of seven years without possibility of reelection . The resolution was then referred to a committee , containing one member from each of the eleven states represented in the Convention . The committee referred ...
... passed providing for a term of seven years without possibility of reelection . The resolution was then referred to a committee , containing one member from each of the eleven states represented in the Convention . The committee referred ...
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... passed by a 7 to 3 vote . The Convention then on July 26 referred its proceedings to the Committee on Detail , and adjourned to meet again on August 6. The " Report " of the Com- mittee on Detail ten days later recommended a term of ...
... passed by a 7 to 3 vote . The Convention then on July 26 referred its proceedings to the Committee on Detail , and adjourned to meet again on August 6. The " Report " of the Com- mittee on Detail ten days later recommended a term of ...
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... passed in the Senate by a vote of 47 yeas to 23 nays . ' The debate on the resolution began on March 11 , 1912 and continued to February 1 , 1913 through the election of 1912 . The question arose as to whether President Taft and ex ...
... passed in the Senate by a vote of 47 yeas to 23 nays . ' The debate on the resolution began on March 11 , 1912 and continued to February 1 , 1913 through the election of 1912 . The question arose as to whether President Taft and ex ...
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... passed called for the postponement of personal plans and partisan debate until the latest possible moment . The normal conditions under which I would have made public declaration of my personel desires were wholly gone . And so ...
... passed called for the postponement of personal plans and partisan debate until the latest possible moment . The normal conditions under which I would have made public declaration of my personel desires were wholly gone . And so ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 169 - No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Página 157 - ... not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness ; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.
Página 21 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Página 157 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Página 4 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 22 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 158 - It is from within, among yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition, and inordinate thirst for power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
Página 16 - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Página 135 - It has been a maxim in political science that Republican Government is not adapted to a large extent of Country, because the energy of the Executive Magistracy can not reach the extreme parts of it.
Página 16 - The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair after he becomes a dotard, that reelection through life shall become habitual, and election for life follow that.