http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/monkeying-with-the-constitution/Content?oid=1797093 Comments On: Monkeying with the Constitution by Jeremy Alford en-us Copyright 2013 Gambit. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Gambit readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Gambit. vip@gambitweekly.com (Gambit Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
A "republican" form of government means that the voters do not make laws themselves but, instead, delegate the job to periodically elected officials (Congressmen, Senators, and the President).
Posted by oldgulph]]> Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:37:32 -0500 Gambit Posted by oldgulph]]> Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:34:55 -0500 Gambit
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.

Under the National Popular Vote bill, all the electoral votes from all the states that have enacted the bill would be awarded, as a bloc, to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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