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Author : Nathan T. Carr
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ISBN 13 : 9781331296348
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Counting the Electoral Votes written by Nathan T. Carr and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Counting the Electoral Votes: Speech The House having under consideration the bill(S. No. 1153)to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon, for the term commencing March 4, A.D. 1877 - Mr. Carr said: Mr. Speaker: The subject presented by this bill for our consideration is fraught with an importance which has never been so vividly realized as now. Heretofore in the political history of our country the results of popular elections have been so decidedly and decisively for one or the other of the opposing candidates, that the power of Congress in canvassing the result has been more a matter of form than a necessity, and being such only, the manner and extent of exercising it has been comparatively of minor importance, and therefore the adaptability of the machinery provided by our fathers for this purpose has never been fully tested and its inadequacy discovered. At this time, when the votes of undisputed States leave the opposing candidates for the presidential office so nearly equal and each so close to an election, with a disputed and undisposed of vote yet to be counted sufficient to elect either - under circumstances, where a conflict of State authorities or local claims renders a Federal adjudication of the matter absolutely indispensable, and when that decision shall determine the supremacy, perhaps the future existence, of one of the two great political parties into which the people are divided, we come to examine the constitutional machinery in detail, it is found to be inadequate or imperfectly understood. This is not a new discovery, but one that has long been known. Even as early as 1793, the first year after the adoption of that instrument, it was thought the Constitution provided expressly no mode of examining the votes for President and Vice-President, and to provide for this deficiency the following resolution was adopted by the House: Resolved, That a committee he appointed, to join such committee as may be appointed by the Senate, to ascertain and report a mode of examining votes for President and Vice-President, and of notifying the persons who shall be elected of their elections, &c. In which resolution the Senate concurred and the committee was appointed. At each subsequent presidential election the same provision was made. Mr. Barbour at one time gave notice that he would at some fixture time propose a law providing a permanent mode of discharging this important function; but as at no subsequent period this deficiency assumed vital importance, he never carried his determination into successful action. In the year 1800 a bill was introduced and passed the Senate which aimed at the establishment of a mode which should exist as a permanent law, but this effort failed in the House and never became a law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.