[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 5 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 5

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  abolish the electoral college and 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 30, 2001

   Mr. Delahunt 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 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, 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 Senators and Representatives 
in Congress from that State, except that the legislature of any State 
may prescribe less restrictive qualifications with respect to residence 
and Congress may establish uniform residence and age qualifications.
    ``Section 3. The name of each candidate for President shall be 
paired with the name of a candidate for Vice President, and each 
elector shall cast a single vote for a pair of candidates. Names of 
candidates may not be joined unless they shall have consented thereto 
and no candidate may consent to the candidate's name being joined with 
that of more than one other person.
    ``Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of a tie 
between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for 
President and Vice President in any election.
    ``Section 5. Each State shall prepare a list of each candidate for 
President and each candidate for Vice President who received votes in 
the State and the number of votes each candidate received, and shall 
sign, certify, and transmit the list to the seat of the Government of 
the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The 
President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House 
of Representatives, open all of the certified lists transmitted by the 
States, and the votes shall then be counted. The persons having the 
greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be 
elected.
    ``Section 6. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article 
by appropriate legislation.
    ``Section 7. This article shall apply with respect to any election 
for President and Vice President held after the expiration of the 1-
year period which begins on the date of the ratification of this 
article.''.
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