Reform The Electoral College
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Electoral College Reform
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Author : Thomas H. Neale
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11
Electoral College Reform written by Thomas H. Neale and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Political Science categories.
Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Competing Approaches: Direct Popular Election v. Electoral College Reform; (3) Direct Popular Election: Pro and Con; (4) Electoral College Reform: Pro and Con; (5) Electoral College Amendments Proposed in the 111th Congress; (6) Contemporary Activity in the States; (7) 2004: Colorado Amendment 36; (8) 2007-2008: The Presidential Reform Act (California Counts); (9) 2006-Present: National Popular Vote -- Direct Popular Election Through an Interstate Compact; Origins; The Plan; National Popular Vote, Inc.; Action in the State Legislatures; States That Have Approved NPV; National Popular Vote; (10) Prospects for Change -- An Analysis; (11) State Action -- A Viable Reform Alternative?; (12) Concluding Observations.
Reform The Electoral College
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Author : Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Reform The Electoral College written by Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Election law categories.
Electoral College Reform
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Electoral College Reform 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 1969 with Electoral college categories.
Electoral College Reform
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Author : Congressional Research Congressional Research Service
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Electoral College Reform written by Congressional Research Congressional Research Service and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with categories.
The electoral college method of electing the President and Vice President was established in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, as revised by the Twelfth Amendment. It provides for election of the President and Vice President by electors who are themselves elected by the voters. A majority of 270 of 538 electoral votes is necessary to win. For further information on the electoral college system's operations, see CRS Report RL32611, The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections, by Thomas H. Neale. The electoral college has been the subject of reform proposals since 1800. Constitutional and structural criticisms have centered on several of its features: it is not fully democratic, providing indirect election of the President; it can lead to the election of candidates who win the electoral college but fewer popular votes than their opponents or to contingent election in Congress if no candidate wins an electoral college majority; it results in electoral vote under- and over-representation between censuses; and that "faithless" electors can vote against the people's express choice. Legislative and political criticisms include the general ticket system, currently used in all states except Maine and Nebraska, which is said to disenfranchise voters who prefer the losing candidates in the states; various asserted "biases" that are alleged to favor different states and groups; and the electoral college "lock," which was once claimed to provide an advantage to Republican candidates, but is now said to favor Democrats. Electoral college reform options include the following: end it, mend it, or leave it alone. Proposals to end the electoral college almost always propose direct popular election, with the candidates winning the most popular votes nationwide elected. Almost all reform proposals would eliminate electors and award electoral votes directly by one of several methods: the general ticket system; the district system that awards electoral votes on a congressional-district and statewide-vote basis; and the proportional system that awards state electoral votes in proportion to the percentage of popular votes gained by each candidate. Despite more than 30 years of legislative activity from the 1940s through the late 1970s, proposed amendments never managed to win the constitutionally required two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress. Since 2004, some of the reforms identified above have been attempted in the states. District plan initiatives have been offered in California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Proportional plans have been proposed in Colorado and Pennsylvania. Nebraska has considered returning to the general ticket system. None of these, however, has been enacted to date.
Electoral College Reform
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Electoral College Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Judiciary Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Electing The President
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Author : American Bar Association Commission on Electoral College Reform
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Electing The President written by American Bar Association Commission on Electoral College Reform and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Electoral college categories.
Electoral College Reform
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Author : Gary Bugh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Electoral College Reform written by Gary Bugh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Law categories.
The United States has not updated the Electoral College system since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, despite public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans are in favor of changing or outright abolishing it. So why hasn't the United States reformed this system? Electoral College Reform brings together new essays examining all aspects of this crucial debate, including the reasons for reform, the issues surrounding a constitutional amendment, the effect of the Electoral College on political campaigns and the possibilities for extra-constitutional avenues to change. The authors consider both the Federalists' vision of balanced representation and a more democratic and equality-based ideal. These competing frameworks, perhaps more than any other factor, account for centuries of American indecision on this key issue. By offering an unprecedented and carefully researched analysis of an always controversial subject, this volume explores the potential for changing a system that many contend is long overdue.
The New Age Of Political Reform
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Author : Alexander M. Bickel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The New Age Of Political Reform written by Alexander M. Bickel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Electoral college categories.
Proposals For Reform Of The Electoral College
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Author : Charlotte Byrd
language : en
Publisher: Nova Snova
Release Date : 2023-06-05
Proposals For Reform Of The Electoral College written by Charlotte Byrd and has been published by Nova Snova this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-05 with categories.
Every four years, Congress gathers to count electoral votes and certify a winner of the presidential election. That process is usually uneventful. No longer--on January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory. There is a law meant to prevent the chaos of that day: the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (the "ECA").1 This book will examine the ECA and argue that it is badly in need of reform.
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