PROPOSED ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT XXVIII DIRECT ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT  

PROPOSED ARTICLE OF AMENMENT XXVIII

DIRECT ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

               SECTION 1: The Twelfth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed in its entirety.

               SECTION 2: The second, third and fourth paragraphs of Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the United States pertaining to the appointment, meeting and functions of Electors are repealed in their entirety and replaced with the following paragraphs:

               The election of the President and Vice President of the United States shall be made by the people thereof.  All Citizens of the United States 18 years of age or older shall be entitled to vote for candidates for the Offices of President and Vice President of the United States.

               The candidate for the Office of President and the Office of Vice President of the United States who respectively receive the majority of all votes cast to fill those respective Offices for their next succeeding terms shall be elected to that Office.

               In the event that no candidate for the Office of President or Vice President of the United States receives a majority of the votes cast on the date of that election, within seven (7) days of the date of that election, an election shall be held between the two candidates for the Office of President who received the highest and next highest number of votes for that Office and/or the two candidates for the office of Vice President who received the highest and next highest number of votes for that Office.  There shall be no additional campaigning by any person during the interval between elections.  The candidate for the Office of President and the Office of Vice President of the United States who respectively receive the majority of all votes cast to fill those respective Offices for the next succeeding term of those Offices in the second election shall be elected to those Offices.

               SECTION 3. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.