Reply #21: I think something like that needs to be made specific though....

[Sammy Pepys]

While the FPs acknowledged things like political parties loosely in the form of factions, those are not acknowledged in the Constitution. Candidates align themselves with parties for a number of reasons, but party membership doesn't play much of an acknowledged role in the Constitution itself when it comes to the administration of Congress and its legislative business.

If parties are going to provide lists of candidates to be seated in the House on the "secondary ballot" (for lack of a better temr), I think a political party needs to have some definitions attached to it.

I'm still trying to understand how the remaining two-thirds part works though. The parties provide a list, but who whittles it down and figures out who is seated from that list?