Word: provisionally
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How simple. Every eligible citizen casts a single ballot, and the candidate attracting the most votes becomes President of the United States. That was what Delegate James Wilson of Pennsylvania had in mind in 1787, when he offered the scheme to the Constitutional Convention. Wilson's 20th century counterpart...
The first contact between the two men, Pusey said, came when Pusey asked him and Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) to sponsor a bill repealing a controversial provision of the National Defense Education Act which required teachers and professors to swear a loyalty oath and sign an affidavit affirming...
Despite Administration claims that the added force would be used for both campus investigations and antihijacking work, it was likely that most of the 1,000 new agents would actually become involved in anti-bookmaking investigations, which they would inherit under a provision of the omnibus crime bill now before...
Boosting Debates. The major provision limits a candidate's expenditures for air time in a general election to 7? for each vote cast for the office in the last contest. The ceiling is 3½? a voter in primaries, but presidential and vice presidential candidates are exempt from the...
To stretch the permissible budgets, the bill requires broadcasters to charge candidates the lowest available commercial rates. In a provision that will make it more difficult for presidential candidates to avoid campaign debates, the measure permanently voids the equal-time section of the Federal Communications Act of 1934. That provision...