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Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies
JACK N. RAKOVE examines the conventional arguments made on behalf of preserving
the state-based system of presidential elections and concludes that the familiar
defenses of the electoral college are fallacious. If one person-one vote is the fundamental
norm of modern democracy, there is no persuasive rationale that can legitimate
the leveraging effect of the “senatorial bump” on the voting weights of differently
sized states.
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