National popular vote a crackpot idea; just ask Panama
Panama’s May 5 presidential election illustrates how NPV awards victory to a candidate most voters don’t want.
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The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse
If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
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Rob Natelson Talks National Popular Vote
Constitutional scholar and author Rob Natelson sits down with guest host Mike Krause to discuss the national popular vote scheme being cooked up in Colorado.
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Give our votes to California via National Popular Vote?NO WAY!
Give our votes to New York and California? No way!
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Why the “National Popular Vote” scheme is unconstitutional
NPV . . . with or without congressional approval . . . violates a central principle of constitutional law.
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The Electoral College is still right for America
It is not true, as some claim, that the Founders acted only out of distrust of democracy. Rather, the system was a brilliant response to a complicated set of issues.
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What Does the Founding Era Evidence Say About How Presidential Electors Must Vote? – 5th in a Series on the Electoral College
Comments from [the ratification] debates generally show that the ratifiers understood presidential electors were to exercise their own judgment when voting.
What Does the Founding Era Evidence Say About How Presidential Electors Must Vote? – 4th in a Series on the Electoral College
The two leading precedents in the English speaking world both reinforced dictionary definitions: Electors were to think for themselves.
The Electoral College In Context—or Some Interesting Stuff You Might Not Have Thought About – 3rd in a Series
The Electoral College is not part of the U.S. government, nor are the electors government officials.
Electoral College Rules Made Simple (or, rather, less complicated)—2nd in a Series
During the founding era, election rules were said to fix the “manner of election” . . . This term embraced . . . five categories.
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Why Did the Framers Create the Electoral College?—1st in a Series
The delegates . . . found the question of how to choose the federal executive one of the most perplexing they faced. People who want to abolish the Electoral College usually are unfamiliar with how perplexing the issue was—and still is.
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