The Corrupt Bargain
Eric Foner: Democracy? No thanks, 21 May 2020
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
by Alexander Keyssar.
Harvard, 544 pp., £28.95, May,978 0 674 66015 1 Show More
by Alexander Keyssar.
Harvard, 544 pp., £28.95, May,
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
by Jesse Wegman.
St Martin’s Press, 304 pp., $24.50, March,978 1 250 22197 1 Show More
by Jesse Wegman.
St Martin’s Press, 304 pp., $24.50, March,
“... tyranny. Placing prominent men of ‘discernment’ between the electorate and the final outcome, Alexander Hamilton insisted, would hold popular passions in check and prevent a demagogue, perhaps beholden to a foreign government, rising to power. James Madison had a more self-interested objection to popular election. The political power of the South, where ... ”
