Author: United States. Electoral Commission (1877)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Proceedings of the Electoral Commission Appointed Under the Act of Congress Approved January 29, 1877
Author: United States. Electoral Commission (1877)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Proceedings of the Electoral Commission Appointed Under the Act of Congress Approved January 29, 1877, Entitled "An Act to Provide for and Regulate the Counting of Votes for President and Vice-President, and the Decisions of Questions Arising Thereon, for the Term Commencing March 4, 1877." Forty-fourth Congress, Second Session
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Select List of References on Workingmen's Insurance
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
List of Works Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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
House documents
Author: A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Journal
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Author: