Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — The Proposed Constitutional Amendment. [ARTICLE]

The Proposed Constitutional Amendment.

The following is the full text of Senator Morton’s proposed amendment to the ; Constitution providing for a change in the manner of electing the President and Vice-President of the United States: Resolved by the Senate and House Representative*, in Congress Assembled, Two-thirds of Each House Cpncurring Therein, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United . States, and when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States shall be valid to all intenU and purposes as part of the Constitution, to-wit: Article 1. The President and Vice-Presi-dent shall be elected by direct vote of the people in the manner following: Each State shall be. divided into districts in number to the number of Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, to be composed Of contiguous territory, and to be as nearly equal tn popula-

| tlon aa may be; and the person having I the highest number of votes tn iach district i for President ahall receive the vote of that I district, which shall be counted one PresiI dential vote. •■<■ 2. The person having the highest number of votes for President in the State shall receive two Presidential votes from, the State at large. 3. The person having the highest number of Presidential votes in the United States shall be President 4. If two persons have the same slumber of votes in any State, it being the highest number, they shall receive each one Presidential vote from the State at large, and if more than two persons shall have each the same number of votes in any State, it being the highest number, no Presidential vote shall be counted from the State at large. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, it beiii" the highest number in any district, no Presidential vote shall be counted from that district. 5. 'flie foregoing provisions shall apply to the eieetion of Vice-President. 6. The Congress shall have the power to provide for holding and conducting the elections of President and Vice-President, and to establish a tribunal for the decision of such elections as may be contested. 7. The States shall be divided into districts by the Legislature thereof, but Congress may at any time by law make or alter the same.