All Posts Tagged With: "electoral college"
Where Does Your Vote Really Count?
To encourage us to participate in the political process, we are told that every vote counts. That is true if one is adding up the total votes, but what is the likelihood of any one person’s vote affecting the outcome of a presidential election? Simply put, it is equal to the probability that the person’s [...]
1Apr2009 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedDemocracy or Republic?
Walter Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. How often do we hear the claim that our nation is a democracy? Was a democratic form of government the vision of the Founders? As it turns out, the word democracy appears nowhere in the two most fundamental founding documents [...]
1Jun2007 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Does the Electoral College Really Help Small States? To the Editor: While I do not favor eliminating the Electoral College per se, Lawrence Reed (“Ideas and Consequences,” March 2001) is incorrect in a major point—and it defines the need to modify the rules by which the College operates. Mr. Reed states, “[T]he fact that a [...]
1Jun2001 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedKeep the Electoral College
Should the Electoral College be abolished? Last year’s presidential election raised the question once again, but it also answered it with an emphatic NO! The framers of the Constitution knew precisely what they were doing when they established the system for electing presidents, which is more than anyone can say about the people who spent [...]
1Mar2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | ContinuedCast a Giant Ballot
Dr. Thies is the Durell Professor of Money, Banking, and Finance at Shenandoah University and chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus. The late Roger MacBride is perhaps best remembered as the person who brought Little House on the Prairie to television. For some readers of this magazine, he was the person who, through the casting [...]
1Oct1997 | Clifford F. Thies | 0 comments | Continued-
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