Choosing The President

Author : Eric Burin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692833447

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Picking the President by Eric Burin Pdf

The 2016 presidential election has sparked an unprecedented interest in the Electoral College. In response to Donald Trump winning the presidency despite losing the popular vote, numerous individuals have weighed in with letters-to-the-editor, op-eds, blog posts, videos, and the like, and thanks to the revolution in digital communications, these items have reached an exceptionally wide audience. In short, never before have so many people had so much to say about the Electoral College. To facilitate and expand the conversation, Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College offers brief essays that examine the Electoral College from different disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, mathematics, political science, history, and pedagogy. Along the way, the essays address a variety of questions about the Electoral College: Why was it created? How has it changed over time? Who benefits from it? Is it just? How will future demographic patterns affect it? Should we alter or abolish the Electoral College, and if so, what should replace it? In exploring these matters, Picking the President enhances our understanding of one of America's most high-profile, momentous issues.

Author : Walter Berns
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008570353

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After the People Vote by Walter Berns Pdf

Author : James David Barber
Publisher : The American Assembly
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Choosing The President by James David Barber Pdf

Author : Paul D. Schumaker,Burdett A. Loomis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015047515153

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Choosing a President by Paul D. Schumaker,Burdett A. Loomis Pdf

What effect would reform have on the conduct of campaign organizations during elections, media coverage of campaigns, citizen participation, and distribution of power? On the basis of these deliberations, each political expert indicates the extent to which he or she supports or opposes the Electoral College and the various alternatives to it."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : P. D. Schumaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013790421

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Choosing the president by P. D. Schumaker Pdf

Author : Nancy Gill
Publisher : Fearon Teacher Aids
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0822426889

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Electing Our President by Nancy Gill Pdf

Author : Jesse Wegman
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250221988

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Let the People Pick the President by Jesse Wegman Pdf

“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.

Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404233584

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America's Electoral College by Therese M. Shea Pdf

Examines the process of choosing the president.

Author : League of Women Voters (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Presidents
ISBN : IND:39000003203002

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Choosing the President by League of Women Voters (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Alexander S. Belenky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319446967

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Who Will Be the Next President? by Alexander S. Belenky Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal representation of states as equal members of the Union, and of the nation as a whole. This book analyzes the National Popular Vote plan and shows that this plan may violate the Supreme Court decisions on the equality of votes cast in statewide popular elections held to choose state electors. That is, the National Popular Vote plan may violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The book proposes a new election system in which the will of the states and the will of the nation as a whole are determined by direct popular elections for President and Vice President in the 50 states and in D.C. This system a) would elect President a candidate who is the choice of both the nation as a whole and of the states as equal members of the Union, b) would let the current system elect a President only if the nation as a whole and the states as equal members of the Union fail to agree on a common candidate, and c) would encourage the candidates to campaign nationwide. The second edition has been updated to include a proposal on how to make established non-major party presidential candidates and independent candidates welcome participants in national televised presidential debates with the major-party candidates.

Author : Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674974142

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Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar Pdf

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

Author : Xina M. Uhl
Publisher : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499468557

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Electing a U.S. President by Xina M. Uhl Pdf

The president of the United States holds the most important office in the country. The person who is elected to fill this position represents the nation's highest commitment to the rule of law. The process by which this job is filled can be difficult for struggling readers to grasp, leaving them uninformed. With a focus on simple language and helpful graphics, this book makes the ins and outs of a presidential election easy to understand. Readers will be directed to the Constitution for ultimate guidance, but this primary source is explained with clear examples of its use, from the founding of the nation to modern times.

Author : Peter Finn
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502671514

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Electing the President by Peter Finn Pdf

The path to the U.S. presidency is a difficult one. The campaign is often years long, and getting enough support to succeed is difficult and expensive. And being the most popular candidate, or getting the most amount of votes, doesn't mean the candidate will get elected! This important book explains the process of the presidential election, including the electoral college, as well as the duties and responsibilities of the president. Historical anecdotes will further explain concepts. Sidebars, fact boxes, and photographs will engage future candidates as they learn about key parts of the social studies curriculum.

Author : Charles C. Euchner,John Anthony Maltese
Publisher : CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025153548

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Selecting the President by Charles C. Euchner,John Anthony Maltese Pdf

With material drawn from CQ's Guide to the presidency, delineates how the presidency came to be and has endured for two centuries, following the major developments that have shaped presidential power, and the struggles over the definition of authority that have resulted in institutional changes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : League of Women Voters (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1558219595

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Choosing the President by League of Women Voters (U.S.) Pdf

Offers pointers for getting the most out of the election by directing you to the best political Web sites, helping you evaluate news coverage and what to look for when watching debates & conventions.