He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years.
. . . No person except a natural born Citizen, or a
Citizen of the United States at the time of the
Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the
Office of President; neither shall any person be
eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to
the Age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen Years a
Resident within the United States.

U.S. Constitution, Article II

If Jefferson is elected, the Bible will be burned, the
French "Marseillaise" will be sung in Christian
churches, and we may see our wives and daughters
the victims of legal prostitution; soberly dishonored;
speciously polluted.

Reverend Timothy Dwight, President, Yale University,
quoted in D. C. Coyle, Order of the Presidency
( 1960), p. 43

The way things now stand, in [the 1980] election a
decision of major national importance will again be
entrusted to the outdated, flawed mechanism of the
electoral college. Most importantly, the Nation will
again run the serious risk that due to the workings of
this system the candidate obtaining the most popular
votes might not be selected as President.

Hon. Jonathan B. Bingham (D-NY), Congressional Record,
February 26, 1979, p. H.882

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