[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 11 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 11

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 2005

  Mrs. Feinstein 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 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 to the States 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. The persons having the greatest 
number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected.
    ``Section 2. The voters in each State shall have the qualifications 
requisite for electors of 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. Congress may establish 
qualifications for voters in the district constituting the seat of 
government of the United States.
    ``Section 3. Congress may determine the time, place, and manner of 
holding the election, and the entitlement to inclusion on the ballot. 
Congress shall prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which 
the results of the election shall be ascertained and declared.
    ``Section 4. Each voter shall cast a single vote jointly applicable 
to President and Vice President in any such election. Names of 
candidates shall not be joined unless both candidates have consented 
thereto, and no candidate shall consent to being joined with more than 
one other person.
    ``Section 5. 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 the Vice President-elect has been chosen, 
and for the case of a tie in any such election.
    ``Section 6. This article shall take effect one year after the 
twenty-first day of January following ratification.''.
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