e several States,
shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case
shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution
when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States
or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode
of ratification may be proposed by the Congress: _Provided_, That no
amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner
affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first
article, and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of
its equal suffrage in the Senate:"

Therefore,

_Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses
concurring_), That the following amendments to the Constitution of the
United States be proposed to the legislatures of the several States,
which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States,
shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution:

"That hereafter the President and Vice-President of the United States
shall be chosen for the term of six years, by the people of the
respective States, in the manner following: Each State shall be divided
by the legislature thereof in districts, equal in number to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives to which such State may be
entitled in the Congress of the United States; the said districts to
be composed of contiguous territory, and to contain, as nearly as may
be, an equal number of persons entitled to be represented under the
Constitution, and to be laid off for the first time immediately after
the ratification of this amendment; that on the first Thursday in August
in the year 18--, and on the same day every sixth year thereafter, the
citizens of each State who possess the qualifications requisite for
electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures shall
meet within their respective districts and vote for a President and
Vice-President of the United States; and the person receiving the
greatest number of votes for President and the one receiving the
greatest number of votes for Vice-President in each district shall
be holden to have received one vote, which fact shall be immediately
certified by the governor of the State to each of the Senators in
Congress from such State an