The December 2010 issue of the Fordham Law Review is entirely devoted to the topic of the selection process for President and Vice-President. All of the articles except one are about the 25th Amendment, which was ratified in 1967 and covers two topics: (1) selection of a new Vice-President when the former Vice-President dies or resigns; (2) presidential disability. The Review also has an article about the process by which Congress counts the Electoral Vote. That article describes how the existing law on that subject, the Electoral Count Act of 1887, came to be passed, and highlights some of its weaknesses. That article is subtitled “Learning the Wrong Lesson from the Hayes-Tilden Dispute.”
All of the contents of the issue can be read here. Thanks to Rick Hasen’s ElectionLawBlog for the link. The article about the Electoral Count Act is by Law Professors Edward B. Foley and Nathan L. Colvin, of Moritz College of Law in Ohio.
More waste of time and effort by the Fordham folks.
Abolish the time bomb Electoral College.
Uniform definition of Elector- in ALL of the U.S.A.
Nonpartisan App.V. — for ALL elected executive officers and ALL judges — especially the SCOTUS folks.
A Prez/VP being elected by a majority of ALL voters — not just the party hacks in the marginal *battleground* gerrymander States.
How many foreign nations have ALL the voters elect the nation’s chief executive officer and somehow manage to survive ???
Professor James Fleming: “In thinking about feasible reforms, we must begin with the sobering
reality that a people who did not abolish or amend the Electoral College after the Bush-Gore presidential election controversy”.
What makes USA great is we have a Constitution, 220 years, and not mob rule by special interest.
The Electoral College will never be abolished.
However, Congressional District Electors is the reform that will return the power back to the people.
We in California are promoting a reform initiative. Join Us.
Folks suffered under divine right of kings for thousands of years – things happened. See England 1688-1689.
Folks suffered under slavery for hundreds of years – things happened. See the U.S.A. 1865.
Fill in the next sentence — regarding the various minority rule gerrymander systems in the U.S.A. — All state legislatures and the 3 U.S.A. gerrymander systems — House, Senate, Electoral College.
P.R. and App.V.
I didn’t make it very far, but I looked at an article by Fred Fielding who worked for the Reagan White House in 1981, when Reagan was shot.
He confirmed that it was quite likely true, that just 29 years ago, the first word of the shooting received at the White House was from a pay phone.
When did CNN get started ???
How many ARMIES of reporters follow a Prez around — some now actually having New Age cell phones ???
Any of the Prez secret service folks have phones ???
Any military folks along with each Prez — with phones to the Pentagon ???
Even — any cell phone on each Prez ???