Word: electorate
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...Great Century. Founded in 1386 by Prince Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate (and officially still called Ruprecht-Karl University). Heidelberg has survived wars before. For its Protestant loyalties. Roman Catholic armies looted the place in the Thirty Years' War (much of the library vanished into the Vatican). France's Louis XIV sacked it again; it reopened under Jesuit auspices in 1700 and foundered until the 19th century, when Protestants returned to launch the university's renowned reputation...
...Kennedy rebels wanted to purge Mississippi's William Colmer from the committee and replace him with a Rayburn man. Colmer seemed fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered...
Nothing in the Constitution forbids the use of unpledged electors or prevents an individual elector from exercising his personal judgment in voting. In fact, such individual discretion was clearly the intention of the framers, for whatever that is worth. But, as the electoral system has evolved toward universal suffrage, the pledged elector has necessarily become the rule rather than the exception...
...Vote. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, a Republican who has long dreamed of uniting Northern and Southern conservatives in a single political party, leads a campaign to bring the presidential election somewhat closer to a proportional vote than it is now. He would divide each state into electoral districts, each nearly equal in population, have the voters in each district choose one elector, plus two "at large'' electors to be selected statewide. Under such a system, says Mundt, "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups in the big-city states would be reduced to proper...