WHEREAS Every State in the Union has taken measures to choose its Electors to the Electoral College of the United States in accordance with the desires of the citizens of that State with respect to specific candidates for President and Vice President, and WHEREAS Recent tradition has effectively treated the President as the representative of all of the citizens of the United States, and the Vice President is elected in conjunction with the President, { We the Citizens of the State of ______ hereby call upon our Legislature to ratify and encourage the ratification by other States the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States. We the Legislature of the State of ______ hereby ratify and encourage ratification by other States of the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States. } Article II, Section 1 is amended to read as follows. The Senate or its duly appointed officer shall transmit to the States, not less than two months before the election, a list of candidates for President and Vice President. Candidates shall be nominated to the list in one of three ways: 1. Each major political party may nominate one candidate each for President and Vice president. A major political party is one which shall have had a candidate for President or Vice President in the previous election receive at least one percent of the votes cast. 2. Assent of at least one half of the members of the House shall constitute a nomination of a candidate. 3. Direct petition of at least one tenth of one percent of the Citizens of the United States eligible to vote shall nominate a candidate. Each State shall present this list of candidates and accumulate the votes for President and Vice President of the eligible voters of that State who are also citizens of the Unites States. The manner of this election and the presentation of additional candidates and write-in spaces shall be determined by the States. A voter may vote for as few as none and up to as many candidates and write-in candidates as are presented. As directed by procedure set down by the State legislatures, an officer of the State shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists 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 for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of eligible voters; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, 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. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. The Congress may determine the Day on which the Citizens eligible to vote shall give their Votes; which shall be the same throughout the United States.