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Twelfth Amendment
TWELFTH AMENDMENT The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: 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... Read more |
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electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of... Read more |
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Vice President
VICE PRESIDENT The vice president of the United States occupies a high position in government, yet is given little responsibility under the U.S. Constitution. A person elected vice president presides over the Senate, but apart from that duty, he or she must rely upon the president to assign... Read more |
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Twenty-Third Amendment
TWENTY-THIRD AMENDMENT The Twenty-third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole... Read more |
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment
TWENTY-FOURTH AMENDMENT The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in... Read more |
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Twenty-Fifth Amendment
TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,... Read more |
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Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr 1756-1836, American political leader, b. Newark, N.J., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton). Political Career A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a valiant soldier in early campaigns. In 1779 ill health forced... Read more |
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Henry Hunt
Henry Hunt 1773-1835, English radical politician. A powerful orator, popular with the laboring classes, Hunt was quarrelsome and stubborn but a sincere proponent of electoral and other reforms. He took part with Arthur Thistlewood in the Spa Fields meeting (1816) and gained his chief notice by... Read more |
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Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney (Richard Bruce Cheney) , 1941-, vice president of the United States (2001-), b. Lincoln, Nebr. His family moved to Casper, Wyo., when he was 13, and he attended the Univ. of Wyoming (B.A., 1965; M.A., 1966) and the Univ. of Wisconsin. A conservative Republican, he served (1970-73) in... Read more |
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president
president in modern republics, the chief executive and, therefore, the highest officer in a government. Many nations of the world, including the United States, France, Germany, India, and the majority of Latin American nations, have a president as the official head of state. However, the actual... Read more |
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Electoral College
...proposals to have the president elected by Congress or by popular vote, contrived a novel and...Each state would appoint electors equal in number to its...and each would vote for two individuals for president. The compiled ... |
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Bush v. Gore
...election between Vice President Al Gore (Democrat...unbelievably close vote in Florida. Trailing...a few hundred votes, the Gore campaign...discovery of legal votes that were inadvertently...uncounted by the vote‐tabulating machines...to the ... |
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electoral college
...states, which casts the votes to elect the US president and vice president. The number of electors from each state equals...each state, people vote for a list of electors, each list representing...state's electoral ... |
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Twenty‐third Amendment
...Representation in Congress and electors for president are all apportioned...granted the district electors not to exceed in number...practice three electoral votes though its population...for its one person per vote rulings. See also ... |
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Twelfth Amendment
...provides that presidential electors vote separately for president and for vice president. Article II of the Constitution...received the largest number of votes, if more than half, became...The Constitution permits electors ... |
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Constitution of the United States, The
...several States, and the Electors in each State shall have...Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch...Senator shall have one Vote. Immediately after...be chosen. The Vice President of the United States...Senate, but shall have no ... |
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election
...s eligibility to vote; candidates must also...election of Congress, the President and Vice President, are indirect. Senators...legislatures and the President and Vice President by an electoral college of electors chosen by ... |
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Matthews, Thomas Stanley
...on 26 January 1881 by President Rutherford B. Hayes...Justice Noah H. Swayne. President Hayes, a fellow Ohioan...Hayes‐Republican electors against the Tilden...Hayes's successor, President James A. Garfield...on 12 May 1881 by a vote of 24 ... |
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Elector
Elector a German prince entitled...were originally seven Electors, the Archbishops of...electoral college a body of electors chosen or appointed...who formally cast votes for the election of the President and Vice-President. |
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Electoral College
...state appointing as many electors as it had members of...meeting to choose the President of the USA. As states...associations and their vote is decided by their party...majority of the popular vote in that state will gain...that state's electoral ... |
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electoral college
e·lec·tor·al col·lege • n. (also E·lec·tor·al Col·lege) a body of people representing the states of the U.S., who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. ∎ a body of electors chosen or appointed by a larger group. |
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NO SURPRISES HERE STATE ELECTORS VOTE FOR DUKAKIS.(Local)
...disarray," said elector Evelyn Aquila of...defeated by Vice President George Bush on...presidential electors would have been...One designated elector - Attorney General...virtually every elector has a line. Abrams...The New York ... |
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Electors' votes, loyalties uncertain
...Democratic candidate Vice President Al Gore currently leads...the national popular vote by more than 190,000. In Florida, the vote has yet to be decided...election this close, every vote counts, he added.After...260 national electoral votes, ... |
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Ohio Electors Vote Despite Challenge
...cast its votes for President Bush on Monday, hours...unanimously for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "The...for Democracy accused President Bush's campaign of...10 Electoral College votes for John Edwards...s first "faithless ... |
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NO SURPRISES HERE: STATE'S ELECTORS VOTE FOR CLINTON
OLYMPIA -- President Clinton won less than...Washington's popular vote, but as top vote-getter in a crowded...state's 11 electoral votes. It doesn't say so...rather the presidential electors who would vote for them if the ... |
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STATE'S ELECTORS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT MONDAY
...Clinton of Arkansas as president of the United States...convene New York's electors, pay them a $15...can see." Each elector must sign his or...for the Democratic electors gathering in Albany...York's Democratic electors convened -- in 1988 ... |
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Clinton Wins in Electors' Vote
U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice...elected to a second term by electors' votes cast across the...their states' electoral votes at ceremonious meetings...candidate who won the most votes in their states.Clinton...entitled to 379 electoral ... |
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Emotions run high as 15 electors vote for Obama Souvenirs treasured at...
...Emotions run high as 15 electors vote for Obama Souvenirs...Jersey's Democratic electors for Barack Obama were...African-American man for president.Among them were five...am the first Muslim elector that actually voted...The official ... |
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Illinois' electors vote for Kerry
...Illinois' presidential electors met Monday to cast their votes for president. Unlike four years...state's 21 electoral votes were cast for Democrat...than a half-million votes in the Land of Lincoln...of the one man-one ... |
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INDIANA'S ELECTORS WILL VOTE AFTER VOTERS ELECT
...college, who hold the votes that really count...nationwide popular vote, the president-elect is the candidate...least 270 electoral votes. Their balloting...before. But the electors actually do gather...tallying up the votes ... |
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LAW WOULD LET BUSH FILL VP VACANCY UNTIL DEC. 18 THAT'S WHEN ELECTORS...
...WASHINGTON -- A vice president-in-waiting who...Electoral College votes on a new ticket...run - before the electors meet on Dec. 18...Bush would direct the electors when they meet to cast their votes for his designated... |
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