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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Despite the tension in Algeria, the nationwide referendum date De Gaulle has set for January 8 remains unchanged: Frenchmen would be called upon to vote oui or non to his policies. De Gaulle brusquely showed he would not tolerate extremist European defiance in Algiers, incidentally making clear that he blamed the Europeans, not the Moslems, for instigating the riots. Forty civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same...
...Legislature will probably neither initiate reform nor call a referendum to vote on a convention. A petition of 75,000 names would then force the question onto the ballot in 1962 and the body would meet in the summer of 1963. In the end it might give the governor and other top executive officers co-terminous 4-year terms and shift the counties' few duties to the state agencies; it might cut the size of the General Court and require it no longer to play town council for every hamlet, passing petitions for dog wardens' tenure and the like...
...democracy, and they should not bother Kennedy's supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached to these states by both Kennedy and Nixon. And both parties were forced to bid for the crucial...
...industrial states and urban minorities need to be so favored, because the rest of the political system in the country is rigged against them. Each state has two Senators--this helps the small states, of course, since their votes equal that of New York. House districts are apportioned in a manner which favors the rural vote. And, in all the state legislatures, it is a notorious truth that the cities are under-represented. Thus it is the presidential election which makes the urban population count for much in a system where it would otherwise count for little...
...three proposed alternatives to the present electoral system keeps this important liberal advantage. Even the advocates of direct popular election admit that the Southern and small states would never permit it, and it is thus out of the question. Nor is the plan whereby a state's votes would be allocated proportionate to its popular vote wise from the liberal point of view; in fact, this plan is favored by the one-party South precisely because it would split the votes of the great populous urban states, leaving the Southern vote unified. A third formula, to elect electors from Congressional...