Posted on 01/12/2021 5:02:51 PM PST by dontreadthis
117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 14
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 11, 2021 Mr. Cohen (for himself, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Brownley, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garamendi, and Mr. Cooper) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Whereas the Founders of the Nation established the electoral college in an era of limited nationwide communication and information sharing;
Whereas the electoral college is premised on an antiquated theory that citizens will have a better chance of knowing about electors from their home States than about Presidential candidates from out of State;
Whereas the development of mass media and the internet has made information about Presidential candidates easily accessible to United States citizens across the country and around the world;
Whereas citizens now have a far better chance of knowing about out-of-State Presidential candidates than about Presidential electors from their home State;
Whereas Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”;
Whereas since the Nation’s founding, United States citizens have amended the Constitution to expand the opportunity for citizens to directly elect their elected leaders;
Whereas the 15th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens to vote regardless of race;
Whereas the 19th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens to vote regardless of gender;
Whereas the 26th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens 18 years of age and older to vote regardless of age;
Whereas the 17th Amendment establishes both a precedent and a preference for the direct election of citizens’ elected representatives; and
Whereas the electoral college has become an anachronism: Now, therefore, be it
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 the most populous branch of the legislature of the State; although Congress may establish uniform age qualifications.
“ Section 3.
“Each elector shall cast a single vote for two persons who have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for President and Vice President. No elector shall be prohibited from casting a vote for a candidate for President or Vice President because either candidate, or both, are inhabitants of the same State as the elector.
“ Section 4.
“The pair of candidates having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected.
“ Section 5.
“The times, places, and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be determined by Congress.
“ Section 6.
“The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death or any other disqualification of any candidate for President or Vice President before the day on which the President-elect or Vice President-elect has been chosen; and for the case of a tie in any election.
“ Section 7.
“This article shall take effect one year after the first day of January following ratification.”.
They have to get rid of the Senate then also.
The Lib’s calling for this don’t even understand my comment above.
Twenty states...maybe. The ones that are already owned by Rats.
They’re working on it... give’em 2 maybe 3 minutes to craft the docs.
The Democrats have already found a way to circumvent the Electoral College with unchallenged voter fraud. I’m surprised they would now even wast their time with constitutional amendments.
I think this is Kabuki theater as they did this last year as well.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/7/text
But with what’s going on right now ...
I just dont see it.
Abolishing the Constitution by illegal laws. How nice.
Not yet. They have to wait for the Court to get packed with the six additional leftist justices for that. This is still just a good old amendment.
Sorry. But my adult self just can’t get into that juvenile train of thought.
Constitutional Amendments require ratification by 2/3 of the states - not gonna happen.
Waste of effort and paper. Never get ratified ever.
Traitors to the Republic.
They are working to lose the House in 2022.
Why post this crap? It is an almost standing bill.
They will never get to the 2/3rds, much less the 3/4ths.
It seems to me that these ‘rats’ are pushing hard. do they want an armed conflict to occur in this country?
Section 5 means Congress can simply prohibit anyone except except the Democrat candidate from being on the ballot. Guaranteed one-party dictatorship, no fraud required.
The EC is only valid when it works in the Dems behalf.
Commie Cohen. An embarrassment to our state. *spit*
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