The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, what Should be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong CountD. Appleton, 1877 - 22 páginas |
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adopted ascertain and report authority body candidate canvass Christiancy committee concurrent order concurrent resolution Consti count the votes counting the electoral debate decide decision declared delivered determine devolved duty elec elected President electoral colleges electoral votes examining the votes express fact Frémont Georgia Government Horace Greeley House of Representatives Houses assembled Houses of Congress Humphrey Marshall Indiana James Buchanan John John Adams joint convention joint meeting joint resolution judgment Legislature manner mode of counting mode of examining number of electors number of votes objection open the certificates open the votes opened and counted persons elected power to count present President and Vice-President presiding officer proceeded question received rejected report a mode Resolved returns Robert Toombs sealed second election Senate and House Senator Thurman Speaker tellers appointed tion tution United validity vote of Wisconsin votes cast votes for President votes of Missouri whole number
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Página xvii - A ; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates ; and the votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules in this act provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate...
Página ix - Representatives elected ; that the electors should meet on the day fixed for the election of the President, and should transmit their votes, certified, signed, sealed, and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled; that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the time and place assigned...
Página xxxiv - Representatives, to make a list of the votes as they shall be declared ; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the state of the vote, and the persons elected, to the two Houses assembled as aforesaid, which shall be deemed a declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States ; and, together with a list of votes, be entered on the journals of the two Houses.
Página xiii - ... sealed to the seat of 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 the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.
Página xxix - Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, and the names of the persons, if any, elected, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice-President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the journals of the two houses.
Página xxxix - WHEREAS the inhabitants and local authorities of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee rebelled against the government of the United States...
Página xxxvii - Senate shall thereupon withdraw ; and said question shall be submitted to that body for its decision, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall in like manner submit said question to the House of Representatives for its decision, and no question shall be decided affirmatively, and no vote objected to shall be counted, except by the concurrent votes of the two Houses...
Página xl - In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have complete power to exclude from counting all electoral votes deemed by them to be illegal, and it is not competent for the Executive to defeat or obstruct that power by a veto, as would be the case if his action were at all essential in the matter. He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes...
Página xiii - Electors, then such persons shall deliver the lists of votes in their custody into the office of the Secretary of State, to be safely kept and delivered over, as soon as may be, to the President of the Senate.
Página xxviii - Illinois, having received a majority of the whole number of electoral votes, is duly elected President of the United States for four years, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1869...