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22 Dec 2014, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
ICH prepares junior scholars and college instructors to convey to their readers and students the important role the Constitution has played in shaping American society. [read post]
Another is the fact that, although the electoral college is still part of our constitutional fabric, we have moved in the direction of popular election of the President, such that he garners far more votes nationwide than does any other elected official, and thus has a special claim to national electoral legitimacy—unlike that of even the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority leader, the two elected leaders of Congress. [read post]
If all of these citizens populated their own state, it would be the 20th largest state in the country and would have eight votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 11:30 am by Dan Ernst
ICH prepares junior scholars and college instructors to convey to their readers and students the important role the Constitution has played in shaping American society. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 12:56 pm by Robin Wilson
  Figure 3: Public Support (and Opposition) for Same-Sex Marriage in 2016 If the Court ultimately upholds a ban, it is not at all clear that the very electorate that erected those bans will not resurrect them as to future marriages. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 3:38 am by SHG
  While Andy notes, as if this is a justification for anything, that he has three daughters, explain to him that a lot of the electorate has sons, whether alone or with daughters. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 7:27 am by Jeanine Cali
” The original Constitution was revolutionary for the times, but Professor Amar also pointed out that it was “conciliatory toward slavery” by counting slaves as three-fifths of a person, which allowed Southern States to gain more power in the House and Electoral College. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 7:03 am
" This post includes three quite distinct views of the issue and provide a very useful window on the complexities of the issues and the politics of electoral reform in Hong Kong. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 10:17 am by Harold O'Grady
Main (Call #KF4550 .M255 2013), a comprehensive one-volume debate on the pros and cons of our basic law and how it deals with questions such as judicial review, political gridlock, direct election of the president and the future of the electoral college. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 10:42 am by Tara Hofbauer
The Post has details on Karzai’s statements and the ongoing electoral crisis in Afghanistan. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Franita Tolson, Florida State University College of Law, has posted Protecting Political Participation Through the Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I, which is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 6:42 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Native Voting Rights This short paper is prepared for the University of Texas/Mexican Electoral Tribunal Workshop (September 5-6, 2014). [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 9:23 am by David J. Shestokas
When the Constitution was drafted in 1787, the office of vice-president was created as an afterthought, as a solution to potential problems with the Electoral College. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 12:29 pm
He is a Director Emeritus of UC Hastings College of the Law.In 1996, then-Chief Justice Ronald M. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 8:43 am by Harold O'Grady
Under the compact, as soon as states having a total of the 270 electoral votes join in, the National Popular Vote becomes effective, and all the member states will cast all their Electoral College votes in accordance with the national popular vote instead of the state’s popular vote. [read post]
23 May 2014, 11:37 am by The Book Review Editor
The first guerrilla organizers were dissident army officers, appalled by their country’s subservience to U.S. interests, and then university intellectuals, shut out of electoral politics by state repression of the left. [read post]
22 May 2014, 7:44 am by Bruce Ackerman
 Despite all the violence that marked the civil rights revolution, the methods championed by , together with the sweeping political victories of racial liberalism in the Martin Luther King's adaptation of Gandhi-like methods, together with the decisive and bipartisan electoral victories of the 1960s, gained a bipartisan "mandate from the People" for  landmark statutes and judicial super-precedents that went far beyond the more formal principles of racial… [read post]