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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 12:43 PM
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4. I take one bit of the text a bit differently, but I'm no lawyer.
"The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; ..."

"Second, why have one elector from a different sate? Weird."

If "themselves" refers back to the set of electors, I don't see how the "one" can be in that set. ("One of the electors has to be from a state different than the electors are from" is ungrammatical for me.)

If it refers to the set containing the president and vice-president, it becomes grammatical, though awkward. So New Hamshire could vote for two Oregonians, but not two New Hamshire-ites. Still a strange thing to have in the amendment. But less strange.

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