The Electoral System of the United States: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Fundamental Principles in the Constitution, and of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress Enforcing it |
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accepted according adopted amendment appear Appendix appointed assembled authority ballot Bill body canvass cast certificates Chapter choice choose chosen claim clause Commission committee concurrent Congress Constitution Convention count the votes Court custom debate decided decision declared delivered determined directed discussion duty election Electoral System electoral votes evidence examination Executive existing express fact Fathers February framed further given Governor hand House of Representatives important independent ineligible intent joint latter Legislature lists Louisiana majority manner March means meeting names necessary objection opinion party passed persons political popular practice prescribed present President and Vice Presidential presiding officer principles proceed proceedings proposed question reason received record referred rejected resolution respective result returns rule seal seat Secretary Senate separate signed spirit tellers term tion trust United Vice President whole witnesses
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Página 352 - ... sort and count the votes and form a list of the persons voted for with the number of votes for each person against his name; and shall make a fair record of the same...
Página 309 - 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, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 239 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 350 - States. 5. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither...
Página 351 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Página 361 - That it is the opinion of this Convention that, as soon as the conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same...
Página 108 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Página 354 - Senate, who shall open and publish them in the presence of a majority of the members of each house of the General Assembly : the person having the highest number of votes shall be governor ; but if two or more...
Página 351 - ... then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the vice president; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of...
Página 376 - Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate...
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| Título | The Electoral System of the United States: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Fundamental Principles in the Constitution, and of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress Enforcing it |
| Autor | David A. McKnight |
| Editor | J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1878 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 16 Ene. 2007 |
| Largo | 423 páginas |
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