Sublime

It was therefore established that every State should name a certain number of electors, *v who in their turn should elect the President; and as it had been observed that the assemblies to which the choice of a chief magistrate had been entrusted in elective countries inevitably became the centres of passion and of cabal;

Before the Civil War, the Senate had been the forum for great debates, for thoughtful deliberation on the floor, that the Founding Fathers had designed it to be. During the decades after the war—the decades of the Gilded Age—it was, as the historian Matthew Josephson reported, “behind closed doors that the real work of Congress is done. Moving

The New Right holds to the idea that aspiring to the literally impossible (i.e., pure democracy) is insane, dangerous, and almost inevitably counterproductive. Democracy should thus be regarded not as an ideal but as a bait-and-switch used by the left to foster their own elite—one that is allegedly in the service of everyone. It is one of the

In France this security is sought for in powers exercised by the heads of the administration; in America it is sought for in the principle of election.

In ranked choice systems, participants rank several alternatives, and the decision depends on this full list in some way.

wider the influence of the executive power extends, the greater and the more necessary is its constant action, the more fatal is the term of suspense; and a nation which is accustomed to the government, or, still more, one used to the administrative protection of a powerful executive authority would be infallibly convulsed by an election of this

His seat in Congress was already gone: Homer Thornberry, having won the Democratic primary in the Tenth District, was assured of election in November. And he was in imminent danger of having his reputation tarnished so badly that even if he were to desire another political post—appointive or elective—he might not be able to get it. He was in danger