Taming The Electoral College
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Author | : Robert W. Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 9781503625976 |
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Taming the Electoral College explores poorly understood aspects of the electoral college, including two possibilities in particular that could pose the most serious danger for American democracy. These are, first, determination of the president by "faithless electors" who ignore the popular vote in their states, and, second, choice of the president in the House of Representatives, which is required if no electoral college majority votes in favor of a single candidate. In any given election, neither of these outcomes is likely, but the 2000 election showed that we would do well to take both of them seriously and take action now to prevent them from occurring. Both possibilities could be dealt with by constitutional amendment, but amendment is difficult to achieve, particularly as it bears on the electoral college process. This engaging book instead offers nonconstitutional solutions to the two possibilities, as well as to a variety of other problems that lurk in the shadows of the electoral college process. It also offers a way to work toward popular election of the president without a constitutional amendment.
Author | : Robert William Bennett |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804754101 |
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This book examines the history and weaknesses of the electoral college and proposes reforms that could be made to our electoral process without a constitutional amendment.
Author | : Thomas H. Neale |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1437925693 |
Download Electoral College Reform Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Bill Petrocelli |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 163388659X |
Download Electoral Bait and Switch Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
It’s a system that now fosters massive inequality in voting rights and opens the door to manipulation of presidential elections by foreign and domestic enemies of democracy. Electoral Bait & Switch is prescriptive, and accessible to the general reader.The current Electoral-Vote system presents a severe and growing threat to democracy in the United States. It has thwarted the will of a majority of the voters twice in the last five presidential elections (2000 and 2016) by elevating to office a candidate who received only a minority of the vote. This system is a distortion of the system envisioned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and the other framers of the Constitution. If it is not challenged and overturned, we are likely to face a continual series of electoral and constitutional crises. The constitutional right of Americans to an equal vote in presidential elections is being violated by this system on a massive scale. The value of an individual vote varies as much as three-to-one from state to state, and there are no two states where voters have the same voting-power. The current Elector system discriminates heavily against minority and poorer voters. The winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral votes also results in large pockets of “useless votes” and a system in which where you vote counts for far more than how you vote. Most ominously, evidence is now clear that the Electoral-Vote system has opened the door for voter suppression and manipulation of elections by domestic and foreign conspirators.
Author | : Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2022-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674278592 |
Download Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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...This is a brilliant contribution to a critical current debate, just in time to help guide effective reform.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us “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 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 masterclass 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 reveals 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 outlining the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the institution, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change.
Author | : Tara Ross |
Publisher | : World Ahead Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Enlightened Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Opponents of the Electoral College are swift to dismiss the institution as outdated and elitist, an anachronism that should be replaced by a direct popular vote. This book, written in straightforward language, examines the institutions role in selecting Presidents across the centuries and comes to a different conclusion the Electoral College protects our republic and promotes our liberty.
Author | : J Moyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2020-11-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Winner-Takes-All Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Does your vote matter? How does winner-takes-all work anyway? The true answers to these questions may surprise you. In this shocking book about United States politics, author J. Moyer provides a complete and informative look at the general election procedure of selecting the electors who then vote to elect the president of the United States, a process otherwise known as the Electoral College. Examining the real problems with United States elections, Winner-Takes-All: the Secret History of the Electoral College demonstrates how power and corruption in the United States government have potentially stymied the voice and concerns of the US population for decades. For readers seeking a book exposing United States democracy and the inherent hypocrisies of the system, this book provides an evenhanded look at the relationship between the voters and the Electoral College.
Author | : Lucius Wilmerding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alicia Klepeis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electoral college |
ISBN | : 9781538323250 |
Download Understanding the Electoral College Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How can a candidate lose the popular vote and still become President? What is the difference between direct democracy and a democratic republic? This timely book shows curious readers what happens after the voting polls close. As they learn about the Electoral College, readers are encouraged to ask tough questions about the presidential election process. A unique combination of U.S. history and political science, this volume uses historical events to explain abstract concepts. Fact boxes highlight important topics and offer illuminating tidbits, while photographs illustrate key issues. Relevant to both current events and U.S. history, this book is an essential for any library and classroom. --Publisher.
Author | : Lawrence D. Longley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Electoral college |
ISBN | : 9780300070101 |
Download The Electoral College Primer Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Most Americans remain only dimly aware of the operations of the electoral college and feel little concern over a system that seems to be working. Yet our archaic electoral college has the potential to thwart popular will, warn Lawrence Longley and Neal Peirce, two leading national authorities on the subject. In this complete guide to the electoral college, Longley and Peirce explain how the U.S. electoral college was created, how it has evolved, how it has influenced various "crisis" elections (including 1992), how it works today, and how it might affect future elections. The electoral college is a "system of disastrous failings", the authors say, and it could lead to a political and constitutional crisis. To highlight the shortcomings of the system, they create a fictitious, but not impossible, 1996 election scenario in which neither Senator Robert Dole nor President Bill Clinton can claim a victory in the electoral college. A surprising chain of events set off by a strong third party eventually confers the presidency on the Speaker of the House -- a man who received not a single vote in the popular election. This useful handbook will provide all the information a citizen needs to understand our baffling electoral college.