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Author : David Dudley Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vote that Made the President written by David Dudley Field and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497414X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? written by Alexander Keyssar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Dudley Field
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497438972
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Vote That Made the President written by David Dudley Field and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At ten minutes past four o'clock on the second morning of the present month (March, 1877), the President of the Senate of the United States, in the presence of the two Houses of Congress, made this announcement: "The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States is 369, of which a majority is 185. The state of the vote for President of the United States, as delivered by the tellers, and as determined under the act of Congress, approved January 29, 1877, on this subject, is: for Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, 185 votes; for Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, 184 votes;" and then, after mentioning the votes for Vice-President, he proceeded: "Wherefore I do declare, that Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, having received a majority of the whole number of electoral votes, is duly elected President of the United States for four years, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1877."
Author : National Popular Vote Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979010712
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Every Vote Equal written by National Popular Vote Press and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dudley Field
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vote That Made the President. by David Dudley Field. written by David Dudley Field and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1877 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Wegman
Publisher : All Points Books
ISBN 13 : 1250221986
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Let the People Pick the President written by Jesse Wegman and published by All Points Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : David Dudley Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496126146
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Vote That Made the President written by David Dudley Field and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidential election of 2000 was close, and it was controversial. There were legal battles, political battles, and battles for the support of the people. To some it seemed just this side of anarchy, but few Americans today realize that the election of 1876, slightly more than a decade after the Civil War, was just as controversial, including disputed votes and legal battles --- with fear, hatred and distrust that threatened to plunge the United States into another Civil War. Ultimately, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner, but under circumstances that make the election of 2000 look like a walk in the park. David Dudley Field outlines in this booklet why he believes that one vote decided the Presidency – and that the vote was, to say the least, shady.
Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807531898
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Heart on Fire written by Ann Malaspina and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 10 on the 2013 Amelia Bloomer list A nonfiction story about suffragist Susan B. Anthony's first trip to the ballot box. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony made history--and broke the law--when she voted in the US presidential election, a privilege that had been reserved for men. She was arrested, tried, and found guilty: "The greatest outrage History every witnessed," she wrote in her journal. It wasn't until 1920 that women were granted the right to vote, but the civil rights victory would not have been possible without Susan B. Anthony's leadership and passion to stand up for what was right.
Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199394261
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Deeply Divided written by Doug McAdam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process. The Civil Rights struggle and the white backlash it provoked reintroduced the centrifugal force of social movements into American politics, ushering in an especially active and sustained period of movement/party dynamism, culminating in today's tug of war between the Tea Party and Republican establishment for control of the GOP. In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s. Angered by Lyndon Johnson's more aggressive embrace of civil rights reform in 1964, Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats for the first time in history, setting in motion a sustained regional realignment that would, in time, serve as the electoral foundation for a resurgent and increasingly more conservative Republican Party.
Author : Thomas H. Neale
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437925693
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Electoral College Reform written by Thomas H. Neale and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Competing Approaches: Direct Popular Election v. Electoral College Reform; (3) Direct Popular Election: Pro and Con; (4) Electoral College Reform: Pro and Con; (5) Electoral College Amendments Proposed in the 111th Congress; (6) Contemporary Activity in the States; (7) 2004: Colorado Amendment 36; (8) 2007-2008: The Presidential Reform Act (California Counts); (9) 2006-Present: National Popular Vote -- Direct Popular Election Through an Interstate Compact; Origins; The Plan; National Popular Vote, Inc.; Action in the State Legislatures; States That Have Approved NPV; National Popular Vote; (10) Prospects for Change -- An Analysis; (11) State Action -- A Viable Reform Alternative?; (12) Concluding Observations.
Author : David Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986421225
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Vote That Made the President written by David Field and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidential election of 2000 was close, and it was controversial. There were legal battles, political battles, and battles for the support of the people. To some it seemed just this side of anarchy, but few Americans today realize that the election of 1876, slightly more than a decade after the Civil War, was just as controversial, including disputed votes and legal battles --- with fear, hatred and distrust that threatened to plunge the United States into another Civil War. Ultimately, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner, but under circumstances that make the election of 2000 look like a walk in the park. David Dudley Field outlines in this booklet why he believes that one vote decided the Presidency - and that the vote was, to say the least, shady. THE MEMO BOOK SERIES Pocket-Sized (4" x 6") Always Under 100 Pages Wide Variety of Subjects Write or call for the full catalog, updated weekly: [email protected]
Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826212030
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Dear Bess written by Harry S. Truman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.
Author : David Dudley Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532705236
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Vote That Made the President written by David Dudley Field and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At ten minutes past four o'clock on the second morning of the present month (March, 1877), the President of the Senate of the United States, in the presence of the two Houses of Congress, made this announcement: "The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States is 369, of which a majority is 185.
Author : David Dudley 1805-1894 Field
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372187476
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (874 download)
Download or read book VOTE THAT MADE THE PRESIDENT written by David Dudley 1805-1894 Field and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jack N. Rakove
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307434516
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Original Meanings written by Jack N. Rakove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.
Author : Stefan Lorant
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Presidency written by Stefan Lorant and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1951 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a superb record of every presidential election in the United States, from the days of George Washington to the struggle between Dewey and Truman. Over 1,000 fascinating pictures vividly illustrate this story of election drama--heroism, scandal, rugged conflict, and stirring ballyhoo. The pictures and text give abundant proof that politics brings out some of our most picturesque--and most American--behavior! Story by story, and picture by picture. author Lorant builds up his striking portrait of an important side of American democracy--our free elections. The forty-two chapters, one for each presidential election and an introductory one on the Creation of Office, make up a lively political history of the United States. With swift, sure strokes Lorant draws in the background of each campaign, portrays the characters of the opposing candidates, and describes the battles that took place. He gives the statistics: always the Electoral vote, and after 1828 the popular vote as well. Thus the reader can quickly see how each state voted for each candidate, the majority by which each election was won, and which Presidents won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote. The contemporary illustrations do the rest--portraits, engravings, old prints, broadsides, pages of newspapers, facsimiles of letters, hundreds of pungent cartoons, and the best photographs of all the modern campaigns. Lively glimpses of the candidates in action, the rise and fall of parties, vivid bits of historical by-play, election-night scenes, nominating conventions, inaugurations all are here. The portraits of each major candidate for the presidency and vice-presidency from 1789 to 1948 precede each chapter. Never before has the story of presidential elections been so graphically told. This book gives you history at a glance, and will prove as valuable to the historian as to the reader for pleasure.--Jacket.
Author : Rama Raju
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book M.O.V.E. The President written by Rama Raju and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * 20% of net proceeds will be donated to organizations that fight voter suppression and support voting rights * We are all created equal, but not our votes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton beat out Donald Trump for the popular vote and by millions of votes in states like California and New York. In a "winner-take-all" format, she was given all the electoral college votes for those states. Unfortunately, the millions of additional voters in favor of Clinton in those states were basically worthless. Conversely, since Trump didn't win electoral college votes in those states, the millions of Californians and New Yorkers who voted for him were also statistically irrelevant. They had no part in getting him elected. Trump won the election because of his voters mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona. Combined together, he won by just 314,000 votes in just those 5 states alone. Voters in those five states were statistically more important than the millions of voters in California and New York. What if just a fraction of Clinton's excess voters in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland moved to battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona? Madam President would have thanked them from her Oval Office. In a new playbook for winning elections, this book discusses how everyday passionate politicos can M.O.V.E. (Make Our Votes Elect) the President. It is rare for a candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election. It has only happened four other times in our nation's history. However, we're entering an era where winning the popular vote and losing the general election will occur more frequently. Why? Because most of the nation's key demographic transformations are occurring in states that matter the least to the electoral college process. Each year, around 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the current U.S. population, moves at least once. Much of that movement involves younger people relocating within states that already heavily lean toward a certain political party. What if they made a conscious decision to M.O.V.E. to a battleground state? Well, our votes would be equal, the way we were created.
