Five scholars have filed this amicus curiae brief in Chiafalo v State of Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court presidential elector case. They are Michael L. Rosin, David G. Post, David F. Forte, Michael Stokes Paulsen, and Sotirios Barber. Their brief is a fascinating read for persons interested in the history of the electoral college. Especially interesting is the section toward the end, about the 1896 presidential election, relative to the different vice-presidential candidates of the Democratic Party and the Peoples Party.
5 more reasons to ABOLISH the ANTI-Democracy minority rule EC.
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A great piece.
That said, it also reflects that, less than 15 years after the Saints acted in Philadelphia 1787, in the sometimes-stated, sometimes-unstated, claim that they were creating an America free of traditional party bias, was BULLSHIT.
Political parties and groupings of some sort go back at least to the Greens and Blues in the hippodrome and elsewhere in early Byzantine imperial days, if not the populares and optimates of late Republican Rome.
Parties in all somewhat free regimes —
MORE / LESS ststist control freak laws.