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The Electoral College: Rooted in Racism?

Prof. Akhil Amar of Yale Law School launched a salvo against the Electoral College.  In a piece published on December 12 at the website of Time, Amar claimed that the Electoral College has pro-slavery origins.  James Madison preferred it to a nationwide popular vote because he wanted Southern slaves to count in the tally of...

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Two Centuries of Resolve

This year is the bicentennial of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, the foremost formulations of the compact theory of the United States Constitution. By 1798, the Republicans faced an 11-year losing streak. Federalism had reigned supreme in American politics from the end of the Revolution. Even before the institution of the government of...