Word: reforms
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...enough Federalists to go to Jefferson - "I trust," he said, "the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for Burr" - that the House at last elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. (Four years later, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.) The crisis of 1800 led to reform: the 12th Amendment required that the electoral college must thereafter vote separately for president and vice president...
...There is a simpler reform that would ensure the popular-vote winner a majority in the electoral college: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the founding fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the founders fully expected the electoral college...
Kennedy said maintaining a growing economy will be his first priority, but also said he would fight to pass campaign finance reform, a patients' bill of rights and a prescription drug plan...
...process, he's also made himself a whole lot of enemies. Reform party candidate Pat Buchanan, who received less than 1 percent of the popular vote, had a few words of advice for Nader Wednesday morning: "I would currently advise Ralph, given the numbers that I've seen, that he may be interested in Secret Service protection... from some angry Democrats...
Although this year does not have the highest number of ballot initiatives, the scope and importance of issues is unprecedented. Everything from marijuana legalization to gay marriage to tax reform is being addressed...