5. Suppose the candidate for President should die after the popular election in November and before the meeting of the electors in January, for whom would the electors cast their vote? Have there been any actual instances of this kind? 6. Suppose the President elect should die before the votes are opened and counted by Congress, who would be declared President? 7. Have there been any instances since 1820 in which a presidential elector voted against the candidate of his own party? 8. What would be the principal advantage in extending the term of the President and making him ineligible to succeed himself? 9. Do you think the custom a wise one which prohibits the President from serving more than two terms? 10. What were the controversies at issue in the disputed election of 1876? 11. What were the objections to the method of nomination by congressional caucus? Who was the last candidate to be nominated by this method? 12. Tell something about the first national convention held in the United States for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. 13. How many parties nominated candidates for President and Vice President in the last presidential election? Give the popular vote received by each, in your state and in the country as a whole. 14. Read the platforms of each party and contrast their positions on the leading political issues. 15. How many delegates is your state entitled to in the national convention? Who were the delegates at large from your state in the last Democratic national convention? In the last Republican national convention? 16. Where did the Democratic and Republican parties hold their last national conventions? Who was the permanent chairman of each? 17. What is your opinion of the "unit rule" followed by the Democratic party? Of the "two-thirds" rule? 18. Do you think it would be a wise rule to apportion the delegates from each state to the national convention on the basis of the party strength rather than on the basis of population? 19. Since the people of the territories take no part in national elections, ought they to be allowed to send delegates to the national convention? 20. What is your opinion of the proposal to nominate candidates for President and Vice President by direct primary as state officials are nominated in many states? 21. What is meant by the doctrine of "availability" in choosing candidates for President? What presidential candidates has your state furnished? 22. Is Mr. Bryce's assertion that great men are rarely elected President true? If so, why? 23. Do you think presidential candidates should make campaign tours and deliver campaign speeches? CHAPTER XVI THE PRESIDENCY (CONTINUED): INAUGURATION; POWERS AND DUTIES