Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for the special election of a Vice President in cases of vacancy in that office.

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Constitutional Amendment - States that, whenever there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon being approved by a majority of the combined voters of the several States and other places entitled to appoint electors of President and Vice President in a special referendum conducted under such rules as the Congress shall by law prescribe; and for the purposes of that referendum, the voters in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, and the voters in other places shall have the qualifications made requisite by the rules which the Congress shall by law prescribe.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 20 January 1975

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