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Interstate Agreement For Electoral Reform, Adam Schleifer
Interstate Agreement For Electoral Reform, Adam Schleifer
Akron Law Review
This Article will consider how an interstate agreement pursuant to Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution could provide a subconstitutional legal alternative to the much-debated and oft-maligned political mechanics of the Electoral College system. The current gloss on the Compacts Clause and the Supreme Court jurisprudence relating to interstate agreements may make it possible for a number of states to come together to obviate the Electoral College without resort to constitutional amendment. More modestly, investigating how this might be so provides an opportunity for applied analysis of the underscrutinized field of interstate agreements, which may prove useful as …
The Realities Of Electoral Reform, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Eric M. Mcghee, Steven Rogers
The Realities Of Electoral Reform, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Eric M. Mcghee, Steven Rogers
Vanderbilt Law Review
What good are theories if they cannot be tested? Election law has wrestled with this question over the last generation. Two new theories have emerged during this period that reject conventional rights-and-interests balancing. In its place, the responsiveness theory asserts that legislators' positions should be sensitive to changes in the views of their constituents. Similarly, the alignment theory claims that voters' and legislators'preferences should be congruent. Unfortunately, both of these theories share a common flaw: They provide no way for anyone to tell whether electoral policies improve or worsen responsiveness or alignment. They operate at too normative a level to …
Swing State Rulings On Restrictive Voting Laws Highlight The Need For Comprehensive Electoral Reform, Michael Lavigne
Swing State Rulings On Restrictive Voting Laws Highlight The Need For Comprehensive Electoral Reform, Michael Lavigne
University of Colorado Law Review
The right to elect our leaders has been one of the defining features of America's political system from its very beginning. Throughout the two and a half centuries that the United States has existed, that right to vote has gradually been expanded to previously disenfranchised groups, and strengthened through legislation like the Voting Rights Act, Help America Vote Act, and National Voter Registration Act. However, recent elections-such as Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004-have shown that the right to vote can still be undermined by incompetent or conflicted officials. Additionally, measures whose purpose is ostensibly to prevent voter fraud, …
If At First You Don't Succeed: A Critical Evaluation Of Judicial Selection Reform Efforts, Amam Mcleod
If At First You Don't Succeed: A Critical Evaluation Of Judicial Selection Reform Efforts, Amam Mcleod
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Thomas Brackett Reed, Civil Rights, And The Fight For Fair Elections, Wendy Hazard
Thomas Brackett Reed, Civil Rights, And The Fight For Fair Elections, Wendy Hazard
Maine History
Few causes in American history have proved more enduring than the effort to ensure all citizens the right to vote. From the enfranchising of African-Americans after the Civil War to the granting of women’s suffrage and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the country has struggled to live up to its image as the guardian of the ideal that every citizen has a guaranteed right to vote. The prolonged presidential election of 2000 and the vote-counting debacle in Florida once again focused national attention on the issue of enfranchisement. Democrats argued that the Florida election, whether by …
British Elections And Corrupt Practice Acts, J. E. Reeves
British Elections And Corrupt Practice Acts, J. E. Reeves
Kentucky Law Journal
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