[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 180 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 180

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 1996

  Mr. Campbell (for himself and Mr. Jacobs) 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 
abolish the Electoral College and to provide for the direct 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, 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.
    ``Section  2. The electors in each State shall have the 
qualifications requisite for electors of the most populous branch of 
the legislature of the State; although Congress may establish uniform 
age qualifications.
    ``Section 3. Each elector shall cast a single vote for two persons 
who have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for 
President and Vice President. No elector shall be prohibited from 
casting a vote for a candidate for President or Vice President because 
either candidate, or both, are inhabitants of the same State as the 
elector.
    ``Section  4. The pair of candidates having the greatest number of 
votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number 
be at least 50 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such 
offices. If no pair of candidates has such number, a runoff election 
shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall 
be made from the two pairs of candidates who received the greatest 
numbers of votes cast in the election nationally.
    ``Section 5. The times, places, and manner of holding such 
elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be 
determined by Congress.
    ``Section 6. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the 
death or any other disqualification of any candidate for President or 
Vice President before the day on which the President-elect or 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 
first day of January following ratification.''.
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