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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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An Address to the Electors of England
Author: An address to the electors of England from a non-elector
Author: EnglandAn Address to the Electors of Great Britain. In which the Constitution of England is considered and asserted. ... By an Independant Elector
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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An Address to the Electors of England, from a Non-Elector
Author: An address to the electors of the United Kingdom in general, and the borough of Barnstaple in particular
Author: John Randall (of London.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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An address to the Electors and Non-Electors of the United Kingdom on the defective state of the Representative System, and the consequent unequal and oppressive taxation and prodigal expenditure of the public money
Author: William WILLIAMS (successively M.P. for Coventry and for Lambeth.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A short address to the electors of Great Britain, from one who has the interests of his country sincerely at heart
Author: An Address to the Protestant Electors of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Select Works of Edmund Burke: Miscellaneous writings
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780865971684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke's brilliant defense of the American colonists' complaints of British policy, including "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents" (1770), "Speech on American Taxation" (1774), and "Speech on Conciliation" (1775). Volume 2 consists of Burke's renowned Reflections on the Revolution in France. Volume 3 presents Burke's Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France--generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-1796). The Letters, Payne believed, deserve to "rank even before [Burke's] Reflections, and to be called the writer's masterpiece." Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne. In the companion volume Miscellaneous Writings, Canavan has collected seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in Parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland, and on the enslavement of African blacks. The volume concludes with a select bibliography on Edmund Burke. Francis Canavan (1917-2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.
Let the People Pick the President
Author: Jesse WegmanPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250221986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
“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.