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21 Jun 2011, 12:28 am by Graeme Hall
Some choice quotes include; when thinking of the Convention, “the image of a ‘living tree’ may be more helpful than the image of a ‘living instrument’”; “Divining the intention of Parliament is mostly an illusion, because on most points which come before us Parliament did not have any intention at all“; and, “Is it the right of the democratically elected Parliament to decide who their electorate should be? [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 9:11 am by Bill Raftery
However, the House Committee on Elections took SB 67 and added on the “Faithful Presidential Electors Act”, requiring those who are sent to the Electoral College to vote only for the President/Vice-Presidential candidate chosen by the state. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 8:22 pm by Rick Hasen
Hank Adler blogs on the passage of the National Popular Vote plan by the CA Assembly. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:01 pm by Lovechilde
They justifiably worry they won’t be able to pay their bills or afford to send their children to college or to retire. [read post]
29 May 2011, 9:00 pm
(Many Americans at the time preferred the cowboy mentality of Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter in an Electoral College landslide. [read post]
10 May 2011, 8:52 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (annalthouse)
If it means 1 percentage point, distributed evenly across all the states, that could correspond to a 13 percent improvement in the chance of winning in the Electoral College... but not really.blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
4 May 2011, 8:28 am by brian
Despite these facts, funding for prison colleges was eliminated in 1995, at the peak of the 'tough on crime' frenzy in American electoral politics. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 8:41 am by Gerard Magliocca
 This meant that if Bryan had won, no vice-presidental candidate would have received a majority in the Electoral College. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 8:51 am by Keith Lee
Although a commenter to my post on the topic shared this two days ago: The survey does not appear to meet the very basic requirements of a public opinion survey as taught in a lowly statistics course at a community college (to put it in the snob world’s view). [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 2:43 am by Melina Padron
In the end, although he admitted that Laws LJ may be right when he stated that “a gradual reordering of our constitutional priorities [may] bring alive the nascent idea that a democratic legislature cannot be above the law”, he argued that we are not there yet, and that only a written constitution driven by the electorate could limit Parliamentary sovereignty. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 6:08 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment (A state could discriminate on the basis of race in voting, but if it did its representation in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives would be reduced).3. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 6:07 am by Gerard Magliocca
 Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment (A state could discriminate on the basis of race in voting, but if it did its representation in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives would be reduced). 3. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 9:50 am by Westminster Law Library
Again, these historical materials are a veritable gold mine of legislative and electoral information.With the approval of the Legislative Council, the Sturm College of Law’s Westminster Law Library is digitizing all of the Colorado Legislative Council’s research publications (going as far back as 1954). [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 9:18 am by Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
Here is the abstract: Frustrated by their inability to secure passage of a federal constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College, its opponents have sought to establish the direct,... [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 4:58 pm by Gerard N. Magliocca
The Fourteenth Amendment, by contrast, said that a state could do that but would see its delegation in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives reduced accordingly. [read post]
I was in the capital for the summer: the heart of power, public policy and electoral politics. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
None of these factors is unchangeable, though decades of trying to get more Americans to the voting booth and efforts to curtail external interference in the electoral process have repeatedly come up short. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 12:25 am by Durga Rao Vanayam
This is the situation in this country when we talk about electoral reforms or political reforms. [read post]