Author: Bernard Freyd
Publisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: C. H. Hoebeke
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412838770
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Before the Seventeenth Amendment, US senators were elected by state legislatures. To end the supposed corruption of state "machines" and make the Senate more responsive to the legislative needs of the industrial era, the Senate was made a popularly elected body in 1913. Meanwhile, the spread of information and communications technology, it was argued, had rendered indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However, C. H. Hoebeke contends, none of these reasons accorded with the original intent of the Constitution's framers. To the founders, democracy simply meant the absolute rule of the majority. They proposed instead a "mixed" Constitution, an ancient ideal under which democracy was only one element in a balanced republic. Hoebeke demonstrates that the states, which were to provide the aristocratic Senate and the monarchical president, never resisted egalitarian encroachments, and settled for popular expedients when electing both presidents and senators long before the formal cry for amendment. The Road to Mass Democracy addresses the corruption, character and conduct of senate candidates and other issues relating to the triumph of "plebiscitary government" over "representative checks and balances." This work offers a provocative, readable, and often satiric reexamination of America's attempt to solve the problems of democracy with more democracy.

Author: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: California
Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: California
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Boyd Archer Martin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: David Graham Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258445980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: California
Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Thomas H. Neale
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437925693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Competing Approaches: Direct Popular Election v. Electoral College Reform; (3) Direct Popular Election: Pro and Con; (4) Electoral College Reform: Pro and Con; (5) Electoral College Amendments Proposed in the 111th Congress; (6) Contemporary Activity in the States; (7) 2004: Colorado Amendment 36; (8) 2007-2008: The Presidential Reform Act (California Counts); (9) 2006-Present: National Popular Vote -- Direct Popular Election Through an Interstate Compact; Origins; The Plan; National Popular Vote, Inc.; Action in the State Legislatures; States That Have Approved NPV; National Popular Vote; (10) Prospects for Change -- An Analysis; (11) State Action -- A Viable Reform Alternative?; (12) Concluding Observations.

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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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