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Presidential Elections and Majority Rule - The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College (Hardcover)
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Presidential Elections and Majority Rule - The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College (Hardcover)
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The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since
1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his
re-election. The Jeffersonians were motivated by the principle of
majority rule. Gone were the days when a president would be elected
by acclamation, as George Washington had been. Instead, given the
emergence of intense two-party competition, the Jeffersonians
wanted to make sure that the Electoral College awarded the
presidency to the candidate of the majority, rather than minority,
party. They also envisioned that a candidate would win by amassing
a majority of Electoral College votes secured from states where the
candidate's party was in the majority. For most of American
history, this system has worked as intended, producing presidents
who won Electoral College victories derived from state-based
majorities. In the last quarter-century, however, there have been
three significant aberrations from the Jeffersonian design: 1992,
2000, and 2016. In each of these years, the Electoral College
victory depended on states where the winner received only a
minority of votes. In this authoritative history of the American
Electoral College system, Edward Foley analyzes the consequences of
the unparalleled departure from the Jeffersonians' original intent
and delineates what we can do about it. He explains how states, by
simply changing their Electoral College procedures, could restore
the original Jeffersonian commitment to majority rule. There are
various ways to do this, all of which comply with the Constitution.
If only a few states had done so before 2016, the outcome might
have been different. Doing so before future elections can prevent
another victory that, contrary to the original Jeffersonian intent,
a majority of voters did not want.
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