The choice of the people? : debating the electoral college / Judith A. Best ; foreword by Thomas E. Cronin.
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Why the electoral college keeps winning: the Federal principle in presidential elections
- 1. Do we have a winner
- 2. Right winner: not by numbers alone
- 3. Federal principle and the presidency
- 4. Closing the college
- 5. Beating the alternatives
- 6. Constitutional solar system
- pt. 2. Readings
- Editor's introduction / Judith A. Best
- 1. Statement of Lawrence D. Longley before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution (1992)
- 2. Statement of Gouverneur Morris in the Federal Convention of 1787
- 3. Federalist Papers 39, 51, and 68 (excerpts)
- 4. U.S. Constitution: Article 2, Amendment 12, and Amendment 20
- 5. Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Direct Popular Election of the President and Vice President (1977)
- 6. Statement by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Electoral College (1979)