Author: George McDuffiePublisher:
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Speech of Mr. McDuffie, on the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Author: George McDuffiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Author: Alexander KeyssarPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497414X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
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
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
The Making of American Congressional Mavericks
Author: Johanna Nicol ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Miscellaneous Speeches
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A collection of speeches delivered in the Congress of the United States from 1826 through 1830.
The Line of Duty
Author: Johanna Nicol ShieldsPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description