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Author : Washington post (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Deadlock written by Washington post (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Post Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Deadlock The Inside Story Of America's Closest Election written by Washington Post Company and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... what really happened in the 'post-election' of 2000."--Dust jacket.
Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824281
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Breaking the Deadlock written by Richard A. Posner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts. It produced a deadlock that dragged out the result for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that promise to drag on for years. In the first in-depth study of the election and its litigious aftermath, Judge Posner surveys the history and theory of American electoral law and practice, analyzes which Presidential candidate ''really'' won the popular vote in Florida, surveys the litigation that ensued, evaluates the courts, the lawyers, and the commentators, and ends with a blueprint for reforming our Presidential electoral practices. The book starts with an overview of the electoral process, including its history and guiding theories. It looks next at the Florida election itself, exploring which candidate ''really'' won and whether this is even a meaningful question. The focus then shifts to the complex litigation, both state and federal, provoked by the photo finish. On the basis of the pragmatic jurisprudence that Judge Posner has articulated and defended in his previous writings, this book offers an alternative justification for the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore while praising the Court for averting the chaotic consequences of an unresolved deadlock. Posner also evaluates the performance of the lawyers who conducted the post-election litigation and of the academics who commented on the unfolding drama. He argues that neither Gore's nor Bush's lawyers blundered seriously, but that the reaction of the legal professoriat to the litigation exposed serious flaws in the academic practice of constitutional law. While rejecting such radical moves as abolishing the Electoral College or creating a national ballot, Posner concludes with a detailed plan of feasible reforms designed to avoid a repetition of the 2000 election fiasco. Lawyers, political scientists, pundits, and politicians are waiting to hear what Judge Posner has to say. But this book is written for and will be welcomed by all who were riveted by the recent crisis of presidential succession.
Author : Jeff Greenfield
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780783895628
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! written by Jeff Greenfield and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Election Night 2000 from the campaign preceeding it to the confusion following it to its final result.
Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728542
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Adams vs. Jefferson written by John Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is the gripping account of a turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. The Federalists, led by Adams, were conservatives who favored a strong central government. The Republicans, led by Jefferson, were more egalitarian and believed that the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging, scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The stalemate in the Electoral College dragged on through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand. With magisterial command, Ferling brings to life both the outsize personalities and the hotly contested political questions at stake. He shows not just why this moment was a milestone in U.S. history, but how strongly the issues--and the passions--of 1800 resonate with our own time.
Author : James Roger Sharp
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700617426
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Deadlocked Election of 1800 written by James Roger Sharp and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the most critical elections of American history, overshadowed only by the one that plunged the country into civil war. The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn't necessarily get it right. Only a decade old, the Constitution gave the federal government more powers than had the Articles of Confederation, causing many citizens to fear the erosion of states' rights. Meanwhile, war between France and Great Britain exacerbated the schism between Republicans and Federalists, each faction taking sides and questioning the other's loyalty. With Thomas Jefferson challenging incumbent John Adams for the presidency, a tied Electoral College vote threw the election into the House of Representatives amid rumors of violence, civil war, and secession. Richer in contemporary detail and context than previous studies, Sharp's book offers modern readers a better understanding of exactly what was at stake. Some say that this election was a "mighty democratic uprising"; Sharp argues that such interpretations are misleading. Others contend that eighteenth-century politics were no different than ours today; Sharp reveals just how distinctive they actually were. Avoiding the common mistake of imposing modern concepts onto the past, he instead puts himself in the place of citizens from 1800 to see events through their eyes. From that perspective, Sharp argues that Americans envisioned many possible outcomes to the crisis-and that a peaceful solution was far from inevitable. Sharp offers a vivid account of protagonists and events. He tells how military conflict became a real possibility during the deadlock and explains what Jefferson meant when he characterized his election as the "Revolution of 1800." He unravels the nature of political polarization and its relationship to the development of parties. And throughout he emphasizes that the participants themselves greatly feared what the future would bring. Engagingly written and uncommonly insightful, Sharp's chronicle reveals the complex interplay between the main actors and the historical context in which they operated. His book sheds new light on this crucial contest—and shows like no other work that the success of the fragile new government under the Constitution was tentative at best.
Author : Thomas L. Waldron
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 141346906X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Why Isn't Al Gore President? written by Thomas L. Waldron and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the summary of the major circumstances contributing to Al Gore's loss in 2000, derived from books and articles intended for the non-academic reader. Topics discussed are the electoral college, voter roll purging in Florida, Ralph Nader's candidacy, ballot design in Palm Beach and Duval Counties and the recount in Palm Beach County, the decision of the Bush campaign to obstruct the Florida recount and the Bush campaign's military overseas absentee ballot operation. It presents the author's interpretation of these circumstances and how, in hindsight, the Gore campaign might have overcome them.
Author : Peter Merkl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134239505
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Rift Between America and Old Europe written by Peter Merkl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France. Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American neo-conservative leaders scornfully rejected their well-meant offers of post-9/11 assistance with expressions of disdain for the allies' backward military technology and budgets. The Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto Treaty, its environmental stance and its position on international treaties are also examined in detail. Merkl's interpretation emphasizes America's neo-imperial, unilateralist posture and policies as contrasted to the Wilsonian internationalism that created the United Nations and established international rule of law backed up by the Security Council, a web of international treaties and international courts, including the International Court of Criminal Justice. Today's American leaders thus oppose European champions of an American-initiated international order while identifying themselves with the imperialist European doctrines and practices of another age.
Author : Ann Carey McFeatters
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826332196
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Sandra Day O'Connor written by Ann Carey McFeatters and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 1, 1981, President Ronald Reagan interviewed Sandra Day O'Connor as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court. A few days later, he called her. "Sandra, I'd like to announce your nomination to the Court tomorrow. Is that all right with you?" Scared and wondering if this was a mistake, the little-known judge from Arizona was on her way to becoming the first woman justice and one of the most powerful women in the nation. Born in El Paso, Texas, O'Connor grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch that spanned the Arizona-New Mexico border. There she learned lifelong lessons about self-reliance, hard work, and the joy of the outdoors. Ann Carey McFeatters sketches O'Connor's formative years there and at Stanford University and her inability to find a job--law firms had no interest in hiring a woman lawyer. McFeatters writes about how O'Connor juggled marriage, a career in law and politics, three sons, breast cancer, and the demands of fame. In this second volume in the Women's Biography Series, we learn how O'Connor became the Court's most important vote on such issues as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, the role of religion in society, and the election of a president, decisions that shaped a generation of Americans.
Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 148223176X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Reviving Citizen Engagement written by Larry N. Gerston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas our nation was once united in purpose, today it is bitterly divided. Why? Racial discrimination, diminishing educational opportunities, poor economic mobility, greedy corporations, and an unresponsive federal government have combined to create two Americas. Presented in Gerston’s characteristic, no-holds-barred style of wit and candor, Reviving Citizen Engagement: Policies to Renew National Community casts a harsh light on the current state of American public policy. It then offers approaches to healing some of the country’s most pressing problems. The book begins with an assessment of the extent to which America has become a fractured society and the residual damage from the social implosion. It then examines the fragile condition of the 21st century electorate and a political system where private power too often has overcome values intended to protect the public good. The author argues it isn’t American entitlement run amok, but suggests there really is a powerful disconnect. The large number of Americans who have been left out of the system are no longer engaged citizens. This development represents a monumental threat to American democracy, for our democracy can succeed only if its people believe they have the opportunity to succeed. This book not only provides evidence of our frayed society but also includes recommendations for strengthening America’s social fabric. It details the steps we can—and must—take to repair, rebuild, and renew American society. Gerston contends they are within our reach if we are willing to make the sacrifices long overdue in what historically has been recognized as the world’s most powerful and successful nation.
Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1433016974
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)
Download or read book George W. Bush, Former President of the United States (Leadership, Vision, Reforms) written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, "US v. Stevens," to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal welfare. The Stevens case included various "hot topic" elements connected to the role of government as arbiter of public morality, including judicial attitudes to sexual deviance and dogfighting. Because it is one of only two animal rights cases that the US Supreme Court has handled, and the only case discussing the competing interests of free speech and animal cruelty, it will be an important topic for discussion in constitutional and animal law courses for decades to come. The Stevens case arose from the first conviction under 18 USC 48 (Section 48), a federal law enacted in 1999, which criminalized the creation, sale, and/or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty. The US Congress intended Section 48 to end the creation and interstate trafficking of depictions of animal cruelty in which animals are abused or even killed for entertainment's sake. Proponents of Section 48 predicted that countless benefits to both humans and animals would flow from its enforcement. Opponents of the law argued that it was too far-reaching and would stifle protected speech. Critics of Section 48 appeared to have prevailed when the US Supreme Court struck the law down as unconstitutionally overbroad. Although a law tailored to address the Supreme Court's concerns was quickly enacted, the free speech/animal cruelty controversy is far from over.
Author : Robert P. Steed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013713
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The 2000 Presidential Election in the South written by Robert P. Steed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the fifth in a series of analyses of elections in the South beginning with the 1984 general elections and continuing in 1988, 1992, and 1996. While the presidential election has been the focus, other important aspects of contemporary Southern electoral politics have also been examined, including congressional and state elections as well as the overall status of party development and competition in each Southern state. Steed and Moreland continue the general organization plan of the previous publications in this volume, beginning with an introductory chapter on general issues and background, a chapter on presidential primaries, an examination of the particular issues of the 2000 presidential election, and a look at religion and Southern politics. Experts on the individual states then analyze the contests in each state, and the volume concludes with a summary of the lessons to be gained from the 2000 election cycle. An definitive work for all scholars, students, and researchers involved with contemporary Southern politics and presidential elections.
Author : Jason D. Mycoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742540606
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Confrontation and Compromise written by Jason D. Mycoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Classroom tested in the authors' teaching of courses on Congress and the presidency, the case studies in Confrontation and Compromise offer students an engaging and informative look at the critical role that leadership plays in achieving legislative success."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Stranger Journalism
ISBN 13 : 0199869847
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Supreme Injustice written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by Stranger Journalism. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Dershowitz is especially well-qualified to comment upon the disgraceful elections of 2000. He concludes that the Supreme Court's reputation has been sullied and that by setting such an unfavourable precedent the American judicial system will be criticised for its lack of fairness at home and abroad.
Author : A. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268638
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Battle for the White House from Bush to Obama written by A. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.
Author : Mark Whitman
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262042
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Florida 2000 written by Mark Whitman and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines original sources with analysis to provide a full account of the issues surrounding the disputed presidential election.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Federal Election Practices and Procedures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
