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vvny snouia tne executive Branch of the Government be placed under threat of complete upheaval in the middle of a Presidential term if the President died or became incapacitated and a man of the opposition party suddenly took charge?
These are pertinent questions; In answer, I should state that 1 should consider it unlikely the electorate would elect'candidates of different parties, except in unusual crcumstances. The point of the amendment would be to place both major political parties on notice that they could not take a chance of nominating an obvious "hack for the important office of Vice president in the expectation'of his getting a free ride on the coattails of the Presidential candidate.
So long as the parties nominated highly-qualified candidates, the voters would vote as (hey do today for the Presidential and Vice' Presidential nominees of the same ’ party.
We might recall that the Founding Fathers did not have in mind highly-organized national political parties when the Constitution was written. In that era, dominated by strong personalities backed principally by personal rather than party loyalties, the two-man national party ticket which became standard in more re. cent generations was not foreseen.
It was not reasonable to assume that the man enjoying the most „ widespread confidence and popularity would be elected President, and the man standing second in
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