Abolishment Of The Electoral College
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Abolishment Of The Electoral College
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Abolishment Of The Electoral College written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Presidents categories.
Abolishing Of The Electoral College
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Election of President, Vice-President, and Representatives in Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Abolishing Of The Electoral College written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Election of President, Vice-President, and Representatives in Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Presidents categories.
Let The People Pick The President
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Author : Jesse Wegman
language : en
Publisher: All Points Books
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Let The People Pick The President written by Jesse Wegman and has been published by All Points Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Political Science categories.
“Wegman combines in-depth historical analysis and insight into contemporary politics to present a cogent argument that the Electoral College violates America’s ‘core democratic principles’ and should be done away with..." —Publishers Weekly The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. How can we tolerate the Electoral College when every vote does not count the same, and the candidate who gets the most votes can lose? Twice in the last five elections, the Electoral College has overridden the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire system into question—and creating a false picture of a country divided into bright red and blue blocks when in fact we are purple from coast to coast. Even when the popular-vote winner becomes president, tens of millions of Americans—Republicans and Democrats alike—find that their votes didn't matter. And, with statewide winner-take-all rules, only a handful of battleground states ultimately decide who will become president. Now, as political passions reach a boiling point at the dawn of the 2020 race, the message from the American people is clear: The way we vote for the only official whose job it is to represent all Americans is neither fair nor just. Major reform is needed—now. Isn't it time to let the people pick the president? In this thoroughly researched and engaging call to arms, Supreme Court journalist and New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman draws upon the history of the founding era, as well as information gleaned from campaign managers, field directors, and other officials from twenty-first-century Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, to make a powerful case for abolishing the antiquated and antidemocratic Electoral College. In Let the People Pick the President he shows how we can at long last make every vote in the United States count—and restore belief in our democratic system.
The Twenty Eighth Amendment
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Author : Paul Schumaker
language : en
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Release Date : 2020-02-23
The Twenty Eighth Amendment written by Paul Schumaker and has been published by Gatekeeper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-23 with Political Science categories.
The Electoral College was adopted by the framers of our Constitution as a method of ensuring that our presidents would be well-qualified statesmen. But this goal has been thwarted by changes in our “unwritten constitution,” resulting in a deeply flawed electoral process that is far removed from Constitutional provisions. Reformers frequently seek to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a process that gives the presidency to the candidate winning the most popular votes, but that alternative provides poor inoculation from charismatic charlatans. Paul Schumaker, a retired professor of political science, employs the techniques of memoir to convey the evolution of his thinking about this issue, to warn us against adopting such pretenders as the “Interstate Compact,” and to prescribe a national process that weds concerns for more acceptable candidates with our common democratic values. Covering the past, the present, and the future, this book concisely informs the public about a current issue of enduring importance for American politics.
Amending The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Amending The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
Amend The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President To Abolish The Electoral College System Etc
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Amend The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President To Abolish The Electoral College System Etc written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Constitutional amendments categories.
Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College
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Author : Alexander Keyssar
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College written by Alexander Keyssar and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with Political Science categories.
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
The Movement To Abolish The Electoral College
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Author : Marjorie Ann Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Movement To Abolish The Electoral College written by Marjorie Ann Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Presidents categories.
The Electoral College Abolition Or Reform
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Author : Harold F. Nufer
language : en
Publisher: Exposition Pressof Florida
Release Date : 1985-06-01
The Electoral College Abolition Or Reform written by Harold F. Nufer and has been published by Exposition Pressof Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-06-01 with Electoral college categories.
Amend The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President To Abolish The Electoral College System Etc
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Amend The Constitution With Respect To Election Of President And Vice President To Abolish The Electoral College System Etc written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Presidents categories.