[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 65 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 65

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1993

Mr. Wheat 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 to provide for the direct 
  popular election of the President and Vice President of the United 
                                States.

    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 to be valid only if 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years of the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``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.
    ``Section 2. The electors in each State shall have the 
qualifications requisite for electors of Senators and Representatives 
in Congress from that State, except that the legislature of any State 
may prescribe lesser qualifications with respect to residence and 
Congress may establish uniform residence and age qualifications.
    ``Section 3. The persons having the greatest number of votes for 
President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at 
least a majority of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. If 
no persons have such number, a runoff election shall be held in which 
the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the 
persons who received the two highest numbers of votes for each office.
    ``Section 4. The days for such elections shall be determined by 
Congress. The times, places, and manner of holding such election and 
entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be prescribed in each 
State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by 
law make or alter such regulations. The Congress shall prescribe by law 
the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections 
shall be ascertained and declared. Any runoff election under the second 
sentence of section 3 shall be held within thirty calendar days after 
the results of the election involved have been so ascertained and 
declared.
    ``Section 5. Each elector shall cast a single vote jointly 
applicable to President and Vice President. Names of candidates shall 
not be joined unless they shall have consented thereto and no candidate 
shall consent to his or her name being joined with that of more than 
one other person.
    ``Section 6. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the 
death of any candidate for President or Vice President before the day 
on which the President-elect or a Vice President-elect has been chosen; 
and for the case of a tie in any election.
    ``Section 7. This article shall take effect one year after the 
twenty-first day of January following ratification.''.

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