AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.
' CHANGE IN TEEM PROPOSED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Washington, February 2.■', ■MThe Senate has approved by a one-voto majority a Constitutional amendment restricting, tho President's term'of ; office to a-single term of eix years, i. .. If the House of Representatives approves of the amendment, the States will be asked to voto on tho question, and if threefourths of the, States agree,' the amendment will be included in the Constitution, The President of the United States iB elected every fdurth year, and the same person may be re-elected for any number of terms. A two-thirds majority of both Houses of Congress may propose amendments to the Constitution, and these take effect when ratified by three-fourths of the Legislatures of the States, or by conventions in three-fourths of the States, as the one or other mode of ratification, may be proposed by Congressi Tho Constitution has been amended on six occasions only since its adoption in 1790. The last amendment was made in 1870.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 7
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162AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 7
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