Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs, a slate of electors...
...acting now to reject the Florida Supreme Court's unwarranted intrusion into the regulation of the manner of appointing electors, this court will eliminate the potential for a constitutional crisis arising out of an unseemly conflict among Florida's legislative and judicial branches regarding the appointment of electors," the Tuesday filing read...
...Besides the "in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs" passage in the U.S. Constitution, an 1845 federal law gives state legislatures the power to choose the method of elector appointment if the state "has failed to make a choice on the day provided by law." Republicans argue that that day was November 7, and with the electorate still undecided, the Dec. 12 deadline is in danger from Gore's lawyers. Democrats argue that the voters did choose on Nov. 7, and we just don't know what the choice...
...claim--the G.O.P. doesn't usually ask the federal courts to intrude in state elections--and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly provides that each state may select its presidential electors "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." That's another way of saying that the states call the shots in presidential elections...
...Dunn's obvious opposite--an elegant, well-spoken dude who runs an upscale store dealing in original comic-book art. He is also afflicted by a congenital illness that causes his bones to shatter on the slightest contact--reason enough, one imagines, to account for his cranky manner...