The Choice of the People? : Debating the Electoral College

Foreword vii Thomas E. Cronin Part One: Why the Electoral College Keeps Winning: The Federal Principle in Presidential Elections Introduction 3(6) Do We Have a Winner? 9(8) The Right Winner: Not by Numbers Alone! 17(14) The Federal Principle and the Presidency 31(12) Closing the College 43(8) Beating the Alternatives 51(14) The Constitutional Solar System 65(20) Appendix A: Distribution of Electoral Votes, 1991--2000 73(1) Appendix B: Popular and Electoral Votes in Presidential Elections, 1789--1992 74(5) Select Bibliography 79(4) Part Two: Readings Editor's Introduction 83(2) Judith A. Best Statement of Lawrence D. Longley Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution (1992) 85(14) Statement of Gouverneur Morris in the Federal Convention of 1787 99(2) The Federalist Papers 39, 51, and 68 (excerpts) 101(10) The U.S. Constitution: Article II, Amendment 12, and Amendment 20 111(4) Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Direct Popular election of the President and Vice President (1977) 115(36) Statement by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Electoral College (1979) 151(10) Index 161(4) About the Author 165