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"The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson colour of it should creep into his vote. … The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes." -- G. K. Chesterton |
United
States Constitution
Article II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an
inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes
for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed
to the President of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives,
open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the
President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have
such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of
them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner
choose the President. 
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state
having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority
of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest
number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. 
But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the
Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties
of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal,
death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and
such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be
increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from
the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States."
I voted today. Have you?
| When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It’s a remarkably shrewed and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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