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The runner-up presidency : the elections that defied America's popular will (and how our democracy remains in danger) /
An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were thrown to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Lyons Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- _GoBack; Introduction Electoral Votes: A Risky Game of Dice; Chapter 1 What Were the Founders Thinking?; Chapter 2 Florida, Bush v. Gore, and the 2000 Election; Chapter 3 The Loser Wins; Chapter 4 The Loser Wins Again; Chapter 5 The House Decides; Chapter 6 The House Decides Again; Chapter 7 1968; Chapter 8 Direct Elections and Other Flawed Proposals to Fix Our System; Chapter 9 How Barack Obama Nearly Became a Runner-Up President; Chapter 10 Two Small Repairs; Appendix A Three Possible Constitutional Amendments; Appendix B Winner-Takes-Most's Roughly Equal Sacrifices from State to State
- Appendix C Past Elections under the Winner-Takes-Most ReformAcknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author