Book/Printed Material Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of President and Vice President. July 30 (legislative day, July 24), 1951. -- Ordered to be printed
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Image 1 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … Calendar No 554 82d Congress 1st Session Report No 594 SENATE I PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT July…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 2 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 2 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT by the standing subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary on Constitutional Amendments Witnesses who appeared or submitted statements in support of this…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 3 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 3 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT electoral votes in winch event one of the two persons having the two highest numbers of electoral votes for President will be elected…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 4 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 4 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT disappeared The historian Arthur M Schlesinger recently wrote in his book Paths to the Present What demoted the electoral college from a deliverative…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 5 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 5 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 3 The defects and dangers which derive from the socalled unitrule method of crediting all of a States electoral votes to the plurality…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 6 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 6 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT that this proliferation of names on the ballot all too frequently causes the confused voter to invalidate his ballot and thereby unintentionally disfranchise…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 7 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 7 2 Elections in the House of Representatives The second count in the indictment against the present method of electing the President concerns the…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 8 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 8 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT of the votes from Mr Truman in two States would have thrown the election into the House A careful analysis of the 48…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 9 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 9 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT This contention is more than a figure of speech It is an actuality The 1948 elections furnish an excellent example of this point…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 10 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 10 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT for discarding it is at hand A very recent example of how this rubber stamp nearly made another mistake is in the 1948…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 11 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 11 the support of voters throughout the Nation and not upon their capacity to carry certain pivotal States or even big cities Able men…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 12 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 12 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT statistics are not presently available but in 1946 in South Carolina for example 13 percent of the population voted in the primaries while…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 13 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 13 Congressman Ed Gossett of Texas sponsor of House Joint Resolu tion 2 of the Eightyfirst Congress had this comment to make during the…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 14 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 14 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT а Since the new system entirely does away with the office of Presidential elector all of the disadvantages of this clumsy arrange ment…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 15 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 15 The possibility that a President might be elected in spite of the fact that he polled fewer popular votes than his opponent would…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 16 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 16 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT c Perhaps the greatest benefit which the proponents and sup porters of this reform believe would result from its incorporation into the Constitution…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 17 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … S Repts 821 vol 3 83 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 17 duce the principle of proportional representation at the Presidential level and 3 that the proposed method for…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 18 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 18 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT But proportional representation is obviously inapplicable to the election of a single official to one position such as the President of the United…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 19 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 19 twelfth amendment These provisions specify the number of electors to which each State is entitled and the time and method of choosing them…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 20 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 20 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT This provision retains the present voting power of the State in the election of the President in precisely the same degree as now…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 21 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 21 complished and this is one of the respects in which it differs from its predecessor Senate Joint Resolution 2 of the Eightyfirst Congress…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 22 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 22 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT electoral votes of that State shall go This is indeed putting almost an undue premium on the plurality principle for the rewards of…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 23 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 23 Page 4 line 9 The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the per sons from…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 24 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … 24 RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Manifestly this provision has no practical application to the case where the voters themselves elect the President Therefore this pro vision is eliminated…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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Image 25 of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the … o RELATING TO ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 25 Electoral vote under present system Electoral vote under S J Res 52 Popular vote States Truman Democrat Dewey Republican Truman Democrat Dewey…- Contributor: McCarran, Pat - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
- Date: 1951
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- Date: 1951