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Saving the Electoral College - Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy (Hardcover)
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Saving the Electoral College - Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy (Hardcover)
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The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry
the Electoral College. This book explains the dangerous and
unconstitutional implications of the National Popular Vote Bill,
which is quietly passing in state houses across the nation. Ever
since the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College, Congress
has tried to overturn it. The latest attempt is taking place not in
Congress, but in state legislatures around the country, where a
well-financed campaign by a private California group calling itself
"National Popular Vote" (NPV) is proposing an "interstate compact"
to circumvent the process for amending the U.S. Constitution. If
adopted by states representing a majority of electoral votes, the
signatory states would bind themselves to ignore the popular votes
within their respective states, and instead allocate their
electoral votes to the candidate whom the media proclaimed to be
the "national popular vote" winner. In this new history of the
Electoral College, law professor Robert M. Hardaway lays bare the
constitutional loopholes that have allowed this movement to succeed
in states representing approximately half the electoral votes
necessary to purportedly bind those states to ignore the popular
vote of the people within their respective states. The presentation
of the information in this book to state legislatures considering
the compact, resulted in complete reversal of preconceived
perceptions about how presidential elections should be conducted.
Exposes the National Popular Vote movement, which seeks to abolish
the Electoral College, by making readers aware of this its agenda,
financing, and goal of effectively amending the constitutional
process by a means that takes place under the radar of the general
public Presents as succinctly and clearly as possible the dubious
constitutional grounds for the Compact, as well as the
ramifications if it were to somehow be approved by the U.S. Supreme
Court Illustrates exactly how this movement is succeeding in state
after state precisely because the public is uninformed about the
Electoral College Shows how the abolition of the Electoral College
and inauguration of a national "popular vote" would actually result
in an outcome that is contrary to the goals of many of its
supporters
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