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Yes.
Evidence: "The House also has the important duty of selecting a president if no candidate has a majority in the Electoral College."
Source: Our Federal and State Constitutions
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 13y agoYes. If no candidate gets a majority of the electoral vote, the election is thrown to the House to elect the president by following a special procedure for voting as outlined in the Constitution.
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∙ 11y agoyes, when nobody gets an absolute majority of electoral votes
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∙ 10y agoWhen no candidate has received a majority of the electoral votes. This has occurred twice: the elections of Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and John Quincy Adams in 1825.
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The power to impeach a president of the US rests with?
The House of Representatives.
Which political institution has the sole power to bring charges against the president of the US?
The House of Representatives has the power to impeach the president.
The power to impeach a president of the US rests?
Only the House of Representatives is empowered to impeach the president. Then it is the job of the Senate to try him/her.
What margin is required to choose the president in the house?
If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US. Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
Which house has the sole right to impeach the president for wrongdoing?
The House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach federal officials in the US.
Which office in the senate is most similar in power to that of the speaker of the house?
That would be the President of the Senate, an office normally held by the vice-president of the US.
Why hasn't the US President ever used the power to prorogue?
The President only has the power to adjourn the Congress if the House and Senate are unable to agree on the time of adjournment. That has never happened.
Which body of government has the power to remove the president?
The US Congress has this power. The House of Representatives starts the impeachment proceedings but the Senate has the final vote.
What does impeachment mean to the US House?
To "impeach" means to accuse of high crimes or misdemeanors. So the House has the power to impeach US officials-- including the President and Supreme Court Justices.tried in the Senate
Was John Adams the first president to ocupi the White House?
Yes. He was the second US President, but the first US President to occupy the White House.
Who becomes president of the us if the president and the vice president?
speaker of the house
Who was the first president of us who constructed the White House?
John Adams was the first US president to live in the White House.
