[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 173 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 173

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the election of 
         the President and Vice President of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 17 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

  Mr. Exon introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the 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 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 
from the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The people of the several States and the District 
constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect 
the President and Vice President. Each elector shall cast a single vote 
for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names 
as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President.
    ``Section 2. The electors of President and Vice President in each 
State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most 
numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for the electors 
or President and Vice President, any State may prescribe by law less 
restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and 
Vice President the Congress may by law establish uniform resident 
qualification.
    ``Section 3. The persons joined as candidates for President and 
Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall be elected 
President and Vice President, if such number be at least 50 per centum 
of the whole number of votes cast and such number be derived from a 
majority of the number of votes cast in each State compromising at 
least one-third of the several States. If, after any such election, 
none of the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice 
President is elected pursuant to the preceding sentence, a runoff 
election shall be held within sixty days in which the choice of 
President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of 
persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President receiving 
the greatest number of votes in such runoff election shall be elected 
President and Vice President.
    ``Section 4. The times, places, and manner of holding such 
elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be 
prescribed by law in each State; but the Congress may by law make or 
alter such regulations. The days for such elections shall be determined 
by Congress and shall be uniform throughout the United States. The 
Congress shall prescribe by law the times, places, and manner in which 
the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. No 
such election, other than a runoff election, shall be held later than 
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, and the results 
thereof shall be declared no later than thirty days after the day which 
the election occurs.
    ``Section 5. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the 
death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President and Vice 
President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and 
for the case of the death of either the President-elect or the Vice 
President-elect.''

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