The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-03-12
ELECTION OF
PRESIDENTS
No Provision for Direct Vote Of
the People.

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New York Evening Sun.
Another great national election
will be held on Tuesday, NUvem
ber 3rd, of this year, when a
President and vice president of
the United States will be chosen.
At that election not less than
100000 votes will be cast.
Experienced politicians say that
not more than one voter in LOGO
really understands how Presi
dents are elected.
In the constitution of the Unit
ed States there is no provision
for a direct vote of the people for
the election of a President. It
was the intent of the trainers of
the constitution that there should
not be direct vote of the people
for the election OF Chief Execu
tive of the nation; but in the aO
sence of specific provisions to the
contrary system has been de-
veloped since 1882, by methods
Of practical politics, under which
the voters do elect Presidents
not directly but acting under
precedents that have become a;
binding as the fundamental Law
of the country
In the original constitution O
the United States the provision
for the election Of a Presiden
and a vice president is as fol
lows:
ARTICLE u.-SECTION I.
Il. The executive power sha
be vested in President of tn
United States of America, H
shall hold his cffice during th
term of four years, and, togethe
with the vice president chose
for the same term, be elected a
follows:
50. Each State shall appoint, i
such manner as the Legislator
thereof may direct, number {
electors equal to the whole nun
Der of Senators and Represents
tives to which the State may b
entitled in the Congress; but n
Senator or Representative, @
person holding an Office of trus
or profit under the United State
shall be appointed an elector.
IS. The electors shall meet
their respective States and vol
by ballot for two persons,
whom one at least shall not be q
inhabitant of the same State wit
themselves. And they shall NAL
a list of all the persons voted fo
and Of the number of votes f
each, which list they shall sis
and certify, and transmit scale
to the seat of the government
the United States, directed to tt
e. President of the Senate. II
President of the Senate shall,
the presence of the Senate a.
House of Representatives, op
all the certificates and the vC
. shall then be counted. The p'
son having the greatest numt
of votes shall be the Presiden'
: such number be a majority of
r whole number ofelectors appoi
\ ed, and if there be more tf
] one which have such MAORI
q and have an equal NUM- Der
votes, then the House of ReI
sentatives shall immediat
, choose by ballot one of them
President, and if no person b
a majority, then, from the hi
est on the list, the said HO
shall, in like manner, choose
President. But in choosing
: President, the vote shallbe ia
: by States, the representa-
=, from each State having one v
quorum for this purpose
consist of a mem Der or meml
from two-thirds Of the Sta
NV and a majority of all the st
stall be necessary TO a ch(
" In every case, after the choi'
"A President, the person ha
the greatest number of vote
the electors shall be the
\ President. But if there sh
remain two or more who
equal votes the Senate
choose from them, by ballot
- Vice-President.
G0 a. The Congress may
~ termine the timeof choosing
electors and the day on v
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