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The 12th Amendment: what if the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are from the same state?
The first clause of the first sentence of Amendment 12 of the U.S. Constitution is a puzzling construction.
The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and ...
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USA write-in ballots
Disclosure: I do not live in the USA and so am only picking up bits of American news from various places.
What I'm picking up on is that one of the larger things in the United States is a legal ...
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Can US states forbid someone from running for a party's presidential candidacy?
I understand there is at least a legal argument, based on the US Constitution, to prohibit a would-be presidential candidate from entering the presidential race.
(This is not the subject of this ...
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The 24th amendment to the American constitution provides a right to vote for electors, could this limit state legislative power to name electors?
One idea some have suggested is to make the legislators of a state name electors in at least some instances. It was not possible in 2020, but it could hypothetically be made at some other point. Same ...
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