The Electoral System of the United States

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Excerpt from The Electoral System of the United States: Its History, Together With a Study of the Perils That Have Attended Its Operations, an Analysis of the Several Efforts by Legislation to Avert These Perils, and a Proposed Remedy by Amendment of the ConstitutionThis metamorphosis of the electoral system is familiar to all who possess the most superficial acquaintance with its history. But it is not so generally appreciated that the weakest part of the electoral system is the provision regarding the electoral count. In consequence of this ambiguous provision, the country has twice been brought to the brink of revolution. The Constitution prescribes that lists of the votes of electors in the several States, properly authenticated by the State executive officer, shall be transmitted in sealed packages to the president of the Senate, that they shall be Opened by him in the presence of the Senate and of the House of Representa tives, and that the votes shall then be counted. This mandate, thrown into the passive form, perhaps for solemn emphasis, fails explicitly to declare wiza shall count the votes. It is, says Von Holst, a formula that forces us to suppose that according to the views of the framers of the Constitution, the question was one simply of addi tion. The practice of the fathers seems to have im.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.