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Senator Sam J. Ervin Says
WASHINGTON—The Senate
Judiciary Committee is con
sidering several alternative
proposals dealing with one of
the most fundamental changes
ever proposed to our Consti
tution-revision of the method
of electing the President
Two of these proposals, the
direct election plan and my
compromise proposal to re
form the Electoral College
are receiving major considera
tion by the committee. Last
week, in this column, I stated
some of the fundamental con
siderations which I believe
should govern the debate over
this major Constitutional re
vision. In essence, I have ad
vocated that we should elim
inate the office of elector, be
cause the original purpose
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for choosing electors has dis
appeared and there is always
the possibility, however re
mote, that ‘‘faithless electors”
will exercise their Constitu
tional prerogative of voting
for whom they choose.
i have urged, too, that we
remedy one of the great ob
jections of the present Elec
toral College system which
relates to the present con
tingency that when no candi
date receives a majority in
the Electoral College, the
choice devolves upon the
House of Representatives
with each state delegation
having one vote to be cast
according to the majority vote
of the state delegation. In
my judgment, the reason for
this procedure has disappear
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ed with the passing of time,!
; and under my compromise >
plan, any deadlock in the
Electoral College would be
broken by a vote taken at a
joint session of Congress with 1
each member of the House
and Senate having one vote.
Moreover, it seems to me
that the direct election plan
overlooks the most basic uni
fying force in the Constitu
tion by ignoring the states in
the electoral process. The
great compromise which made
the formation of the Union
possible gave each state at
least two electoral votes.
Electoral vote is based upon a
state’s representation in the j
Congress and the above men- J
tioned compromise which pro. 1
vidcs that every state shall ( 1
have two Senators, f seri
ously doubt that a sufficient
number of the original col
onics would have ratified the
Constitution if this basic pro
tection afforded the less popu
lous states had not been writ
ten into that document. More
over, I think that we must
recognize that our federal
government was wielded to
gether as “an indestructible
union composed of indestruct
ible states.” The direct elec
tion plan strikes at the heart'
of this concept, and weakens
the role of 34 states in the
choosing of the President.
I am concerned, too, that if
we adopt the direct election
plan, there will be a prolifera
tion of single-issue candi
dates. This would seriously
increase the possibility that
no candidate could win the
broad popular support which
has given the Presidency its
influence and power. Such a
contingency could lead to far
more serious problems than
we now have with the Elec
toral College.
As approved by the House,
the direct election plan pro
vides that if no candidate re
ceives 40 per cent of the
vote, a runoff election will be
held. Our present system of
orderly transition of the gov
ernment is based upon the
need for a rapid decision as
to who shall be President.
Only 10 weeks span the peri
od from election day until
inauguration Day, and any
situation which would re
quire a runoff election risks
other delays such as a re
count of the votes or a chal
lenge that voting frauds oc
curred, each of which might
have to be settled before the
runoff could proceed. It
seems to me that this runoff
provision in the direct elec
tion plan could bring on
many serious problems.
Make Going To Church A Habit
SCATTERED TO WITNESS
International Sunday School Lesson for April 26
Memory Selection: ‘Therefore they that were
scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the
word.” Acts 8:4.
Lesson Text: Acts 8; l(hl to 11:18.
Everything has its purpose, and what starts
out, primarily, as bad, oftentimes proves to have
happened for the best. This, assuredly, is what
happened when the Church was scattered, due
to persecution from many different directions.
Persecution of believers, far from attaining its
goal of bringing an end to the doctrines of
Christianity, helped to spread it abroad. It not
only spread it geographically, but (even more
significantly) it helped to assert the breadth and
scope of the Gospel theologically.
For the Gospel is a living, breathing entity;
it moves, just as life moves—and it grows, just
as an embryo must grow in the mother’s womb.
It moves, just as life moves, going on despite
all hardships, all setbacks. It will not be con
tained in a pod—it will grow, spreading like a
plant will spread—and for that we can truly
say “Thank goodness.”
Perhaps one of the most far-seeing men of
his day was Stephen, who was a martyr to his
beliefs, being put to death for his ideology,
yet—in truly Christ-like fashion—forgiving his
murderers. Stephen believed that Christianity
was intended to be universal—to be world-wide.
And, following his martyr’s death (indeed, seem
ingly triggered by it) the more zealous of his
followers fled Jerusalem and persecution, and
devoted themselves to spreading the word
“abroad.”
Philip, also, was inspired to bear witness to
Christ in foreign lands. He went into Samaria,
and his work was truly remarkable in the midst
of this “minority group.” And in studying
Philip’s life it becomes obvious to us that he set
little store by his origins and heredity; he was,
rather, primarily concerned with the condition
of his “heart.”
“Heart”—how often that term is used through
out the Bible! It is, truly and sincerely trans
lated, a state of grace. And Christianity was
bursting into full bloom, just as the flower that
springs from a seed, bursts the pod that con
tains its infinite beauty in maturity.
Peter, likewise, was a fearless spirit; for did
not he, like our Lord, go amongst those that
were considered, by Jewish “law" to be un
clean? He went amongst the tanners, whom
strict observance of the Jewish laws classed as
“unclean.” But he had a message to impart—
and he delivered that message where he felt it
was fitting.
What lessons can our present-day churches
learn from the early days of Christianity?
•If we are torn with conflict within our own
confines, we must not be dismayed. The early
church faced inner conflicts and overcame
them. It also faced external conflicts— and over
came those. Persecution drove the church to its
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