Presidential Succession Between the Popular Election and the Inauguration: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Relating to the Death of a President-designate Between the General Election and the Inauguration, February 2, 1994, Količina 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 46 strani |
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Stran 39 - Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Stran 39 - If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the...
Stran 13 - President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as...
Stran 15 - ... 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 which 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.
Stran 28 - 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...
Stran 30 - Meeting and vote of electors. The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct.
Stran 39 - Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A ; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence...
Stran 12 - ... the electoral votes after the electors vote and before the votes are counted: (1) May the votes which were cast for a person, who was eligible at the time the votes were cast but who has died before the votes are counted by Congress, be counted? (2) Would the Vice President elect become President? It is the view of your committee that the votes, under the above circumstances, must be counted by Congress. An analysis of the functions of Congress indicates that no discretion is given and that Congress...
Stran 16 - Amendment demands absolute freedom for the elector to vote his own choice, uninhibited by a pledge. It is true that the Amendment says the electors shall vote by ballot. But it is also true that the Amendment does not prohibit an elector's announcing his choice beforehand, pledging himself. The suggestion that in the early elections candidates for electors — -contemporaries of the Founders — -would have hesitated, because of constitutional limitations, to pledge themselves to support party nominees...
Stran 1 - The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at l0:02 am, in room SD-226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Paul Simon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.