[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 60 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 60

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide for the election of the President and Vice President by direct 
                             popular vote.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1993

 Mr. Kleczka (for himself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. McNulty) introduced the 
following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide for the election of the President and Vice President by direct 
                             popular vote.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. The President and Vice President shall be elected by 
the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat 
of Government of the United States. An elector in such an election 
shall cast a single vote for two persons who have consented to be 
considered jointly, one as a candidate for President and the other as a 
candidate for Vice President. A person may consent to being considered 
jointly with only one other person in such an election.
    ``Section 2. The persons considered jointly for President and Vice 
President who receive the greatest number of votes shall be elected 
President and Vice President.
    ``Section 3. The electors of the President and Vice-President shall 
have the qualifications requisite for electors of Representatives in 
the Congress from the State in which the electors reside, or, in the 
case of electors residing in the District constituting the seat of the 
Government of the United States, the qualifications requisite for 
electors of the Delegate to the Congress from such District, except 
that the Congress may establish uniform residence and age 
qualifications for electors and the legislature of one of the several 
States may prescribe lesser qualifications for electors with respect to 
residence.
    ``Section 4. The times, places, and manner of holding an election 
under this article, and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot for such 
an election, shall be prescribed in each of the several States and in 
the District constituting the seat of the Government of the United 
States by the legislature thereof, but the Congress may by law make or 
alter such regulations. The day or days on which such election is to 
take place shall be determined by the Congress, and the Congress shall 
prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of 
such election shall be ascertained and declared.
    ``Section 5. The Congress shall have the power to implement and 
enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
    ``Section 6. This article shall apply to the first Presidential 
election occurring after the date of ratification.''.

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