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...ects the outcome of the popular vote, that means the political bodies have already been polarized. Because of that, whoever is elected, either by the electoral college or the House of representatives, must do more than his predecessors to bring the country together thanks to bipartisan initiatives, decisions or policies. But here is the thing: presidents elected exclusivel...

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...The US electoral college started to cast doubt in American voters only 20 years after the 12th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1804, which provides for election of the president and vice president by the electoral...

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...1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….3 2. What is the electoral college anyway? How does it work?.........................................................4 3. Political polarization and presidential elections and their outcomes…………………………...6 4. The electoral college and the hi...

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...d student and his mother wanted him to become a farmer. He was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge as a "subsizar" - i.e., on condition that h... ...e as a cabinet secretary. Presidents are not elected by popular vote but by an electoral college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (18... ...inet secretary. Presidents are not elected by popular vote but by an electoral college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (1824), Ruthe...

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...lso from State Oppression— which includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental rights, and the non-implementation of laws that safeguard Dalit rights. The Dalits were considered untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society until...

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...Sirenevi boulevard 69-1-65, Moscow 105484, Russia. Prof. G. Tica, M. Viteazu College, Bailesti, jud. Dolj, Romania. Dr. B.S.Kirangi, University of ... ...tarianism, police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental right... ...l Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant increase in the... ...un by Hindu religious leaders like the Sankaracharya, Brahmin and non-Brahmin college students are given different types of food and statewide agit... ...ch discrimination and intellectual harassment they undergo in classrooms and college premises. So we are justified in mathematically analyzing the ... ...ion. However, this is not so. Even in the days of Periyar, in the Presidency College in Chennai, Mr. Namachivaya, a teacher of Tamil with several y... ...ut up by the major political parties 76 end up holding public office. Also, electoral violence against Dalit candidates is rampant and widespread.... ...ained S 10 , the concept of political violence by speaking of the large scale electoral violence that takes place in the country. Several lives have... ...ey did not accept that a religion known as Hinduism existed. While describing electoral constituencies they named it Muslim constituencies for Musl...

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...s distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain m...

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...s. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909... ...hief. GhkaM) Mygatt iqoS, News Editor E. H. Wood icja^ At. I.. Eknst 1909, College N'oles. Alumni News. G ENOELiiAKn 3909, A. 1. Santky igtx), M.W.Mac... ...s due to the latter for its service not only to the publication but tu the college as a whole. The most notable service to the latter has been the est... ...eration of alumnus and student in presenting the news and sentiment of the college. Without the aid of various alumni correspondents there would be co... ...c analy- sis. For tiie aiuiiinus it is a means for presenting a feature of college sentiment which has es- caped the rectignition of the edi- tors who... ... of this infitrument is punishible by the forfeiture of eligibility to any electoral office. This agreement is to be bind- ing when signed by an autho... ...se corruption, contract corruption, police corruption, "honest" graft, and electoral cor- ruption. Of these, several have, of late years, been well-ni... ...them- selves are secretly made to favor one firm or patent. The problem of electoral cor- ruption is best viewed in the light of the history of n numb...

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...don't lie. These made good sense. As I progressed through high school and college I came to understand the Constitution and many of the laws of our s... ...35% ten years earlier. Even among those with graduate degrees from 28 college, only 41% were deemed to be proficient in comprehending abstract re... ...beliefs in the supernatural. Yes Commander.‖ 32 ---―I remember in college that the head of the philosophy department at U.C.L.A., Dr. Kalish... ...er? Two hydrogens and one oxygen make water. What if yesterday in a small college in Montana, a student put two hydrogens together with an oxygen an... ... win the popular vote and lose the election because of the non-democratic electoral college?‖ —―Let‘s agree that by democracy we mean a governm... ...traditional Constitutional definition of marriage. ―Or look at the electoral college in the U.S. several presidents have won the popular vote ... ...zen of North Dakota should be equal to the vote of a Californian. But the Electoral College will be around for a long time. To hell with the people, ... ...t political machine. What do the people know anyway?‖ --―Right. The Electoral College and the so-called checks and balances of three branches ... ...hem. The majority in the state gets all the electors. Then they go to the electoral college and all the electors from the state vote for, or should ...

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...986) Suffrage: universal over age 18 Political parties and leaders: People's Electoral Movement (MEP), Nel Oduber, acting leader; Aruban Patriotic Par... ...Legal system: English law Branches: bicameral legislature (National Assembly electoral redistricting in Octo- ber 1984 expanded House of Representa- t... ...e: compulsory over age 18 Elections: Tancredo Neves indirectly elected by an electoral college composed of members of congress and delegates from the ... ...ory over age 18 Elections: Tancredo Neves indirectly elected by an electoral college composed of members of congress and delegates from the state legi... ...: British dependent territory Capital: Road Town Administrative divisions: 9 electoral districts Legal system: English law; justice is ad- ministered ... ...British dependent territory Capital: George Town Administrative divisions: 8 electoral districts Legal system: British common law and local statutes N... ..., 2 representatives of the States of Alderney; States of Election (electoral college) elects Jurats and Conseillers it is composed of the Bailiff, 12 ... ...embers elected indirectly by functional constituen- cies and by an electoral college; Urban Council, consisting of 15 elected members and 15 appointed... ...980, President elected every seven years indirectly by a 5,000-man electoral college; last election February 1981; four-year National Assembly, electe...

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...to spread their message). By doing so, it restricts choice and it tilts the electoral machinery in favor of the haves. V oters with money and educat... ...onstituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. NOTE - The Role... ...ies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. NOTE - The Role of Politi... ...mote it. At other times, they have to refrain from action to preserve their electoral assets and extend their political life expectancy. Resources r...

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... criminals, sperm banks with contributions from high achievers, and incentives for college students to procreate. Modern genetic engineering and bi... ...didates to spread their message). By doing so, it restricts choice and it tilts the electoral machinery in favor of the haves. Voters with money and... ...eable constituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. Left vs... ...stituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. Left vs. Right (i... ...ps, come September, Germany. Nor is the left's clean sweep of the central European electoral slate either complete or irreversible. With the except... ...gary's former prime minister, Orban, sought to propagate these sentiments, to their electoral detriment. Communism was an urban phenomenon - but it ... ...nal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College in London showed that the same areas of the brain are ac... ... a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and her colleagues, revealed th... ...in the February 2004 issue of the journal NeuroImage, Andreas Bartels of University College London's Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience de...

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... criminals, sperm banks with contributions from high achievers, and incentives for college students to procreate. Modern genetic engineering and bi... ...didates to spread their message). By doing so, it restricts choice and it tilts the electoral machinery in favor of the haves. Voters with money and... ...eable constituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. Left vs... ...stituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. Left vs. Right (i... ...ps, come September, Germany. Nor is the left's clean sweep of the central European electoral slate either complete or irreversible. With the except... ...gary's former prime minister, Orban, sought to propagate these sentiments, to their electoral detriment. Communism was an urban phenomenon - but it ... ...nal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College in London showed that the same areas of the brain are ac... ... a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and her colleagues, revealed th... ...in the February 2004 issue of the journal NeuroImage, Andreas Bartels of University College London's Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience de...

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...du (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant increase in the pro... ...2: In any nation the study of political situation i.e., the prediction of electoral winner or how people tend to prefer a particular politician and s...

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...ch this present war was begotten, we must sit up to this novel proposal of electoral representation in the peace negotiations. Something more than com... ...he people nor appointed by any legislative body. He is chosen by a special college elected by the people. This col- lege exists to elect him; it meets... ... of Nations? I am anxious here only to start for discussion the idea of an electoral representation of the nations upon these three bod- ies that must... ...t advocacy of meth- ods of election or the like. In the United States this college which elects the President is elected on the same register of voter... ...otiations, it will be more decisive of the will of the whole nation if the college that had to appoint them is elected at a special elec- tion. I supp... ...epresented in Parliament, would also and separately at the same time elect colleges to appoint their representatives. I suppose there would be at leas... ...uld be at least one Indian representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect ... ...the whole nation. It would give a far more representative character to the electoral college if it could be elected by fair modern methods, if for thi... ...f Na- tions, is to get straight away to the conception of direct spe- cial electoral mandates in this matter. At present all the po- litical luncheon ...

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..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...ve, the German term Bursch,—that is, a bursarius, or student, who lives at college upon the salary allowed by such a bursary. Some years ago the edito... ...o this day unanswered. The scene of it was a house on the west side of the College Green, which is in fact that same quadrangle planted with trees, an... ... in a northern county, still remains a riddle in the south. When I saw the College Green house in 1809-10, it was apparently empty, and, as I was told... ...re and key of the movements to be antici- pated in the coming campaign. An electoral cap would per- haps reward the services of the Landgrave in the g...

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...x- pected, no doubt, to transfer to his son, then thirty years of age, his electoral succession, in order to make him some day eligible for the peerag... ...—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes!” cried the assembly with one voice. “Consequ... ...ealization of all that was promised to us by the revolution of July; it is electoral reform, it is—” “What! are you a democrat?” said Achille Pigoult.... ...top-gap ministry and that was all. But you can distinguish yourself in the electoral battle that is soon to be fought. If you can bring one vote to th... ...efect Antonin Goulard, Monsieur de T railles had soon arranged his plan of electoral operations, and this plan evinces itself so readily that the read... ...ur oblivi- ous friend was willing to agree that he studied with you at the college of T ours and also that hew as the same Monsieur Dorlange who, in 1... ...week two news (to use the schoolboy phrase of my son Armand) en- tered the college of Tours. One had a charming face, the other would have been though... ...t he was never sent for to see friends in the parlor, and that outside the college walls no one ap- peared to take an interest in him. The two lads, w... ...puty of Arcis as a day scholar that he followed his course of study at the College Henri IV . Well, he himself, for the sake of his stud- ies, which w...

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...lls, I think of huge clubs swarm- ing and excited by the bulletins of that electoral battle that was for me the opening opportunity . I see the stenci... ...grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in his school until... ... have dealt with them disrespect- fully. But public schools and university colleges sprang into 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scho... ...ensible. Ex- cept when they wore flannels, I saw them almost always in old college caps and gowns, a uniform which greatly increased their detachment ... ...vice. Simultaneously with this it would not be impossible to develop a new college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, ... ... Besides which the old Academic mind, like those old bathless, damp Gothic colleges, is much too delightful in its peculiar and distinctive way to dam... ...aight at a conflict with the country, and I thought them bound to incur an electoral defeat. I under-estimated their strength in the counties. There w...

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...ad there will be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down... ...aution- ary and remedial treatment. There will be disciplinary schools and colleges for the young, fair and happy places, but with less confidence and... ...niture. This particular inn is a quadrangle after the fashion of an Oxford college; it is perhaps forty feet high, and with about five stories of bed-... ...tercourse after the working day is over, they will most probably live in a college quadrangle with a common room and club. I doubt if there will be an... ... the method of government, biassed, perhaps, a little in favour of certain electoral devices, but for the rest indeter- minate, and that I have come t... ...ds more powerful and efficient method of control than 158 A Modern Utopia electoral methods can give. I have come to distinguish among the varied cos... ...world is in their hands; all our head teachers and disciplin- ary heads of colleges, our judges, barristers, employers of labour beyond a certain limi...

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...twentieth of December, conveying the announcement that the Trustees of the College of New Jersey had conferred upon me the degree of Doctor of Laws. T... ... conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the na- tional cause. 249 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V o... ... resolution declaring certain States not entitled to representation in the electoral college” has been signed by the Executive in deference to the vie... ...n declaring certain States not entitled to representation in the electoral college” has been signed by the Executive in deference to the view of Congr... ...icle of the Constitution, have complete power to exclude from counting all electoral votes deemed by them to be illegal, and it is not competent for t... ... Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes, and he also disclaims that by signing said resolution he h... ...V ol Seven REPLY TO A COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS, RE- PORTING THE RESULT OF THE ELECTORAL COUNT, FEBRUARY 9, 1865. With deep gratitude to my countrymen for...

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...ublican prin- ciples, and could remember many fine speeches he had made at college and elsewhere, with worth and not birth for a text: but Tom Tusher ... ...-dean, her father. The young Viscount had a year’s schooling at the famous college there, with Mr. Tusher as his governor. So much news of them Mr. Es... ...sand signs that it was so. Do you remember how glad you were to go away to college? ’Twas I sent you. I told my papa that, and Mr. Atterbury too, when... .... “I know my place, Harry,” he said. “I’m not proud—the boys at Winchester College say I’m proud: but I’m not proud. I am simply Francis James Viscoun... ...araguay—who knows where? I am now Captain von Holtz, in the service of his Electoral Highness, come to negotiate ex- change of prisoners with his High... ...ompliment his conquerors after the action. In this battle, where the young Electoral Prince of Hanover behaved himself very gallantly, fighting on our... ...amily, were yet forced to confess that, on the day of Oudenarde, the young Electoral Prince, then making his first campaign, conducted himself with th... ...f with the spirit and courage of an approved soldier. On this occasion his Electoral Highness had 116 Henry Esmond – Book Two better luck than the Ki... ...s, was higher than the General (being seated with the Prince of Savoy, the Electoral Prince of Hanover, and the envoys of Prussia and Denmark, under a...

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...h as no nation in Europe has yet ven- tured to attempt. In Connecticut the electoral body consisted, from its ori- gin, of the whole number of citizen... ...t universally elected, and the citizens were not all of them electors. The electoral franchise was everywhere placed within certain limits, and made d... ...d. There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; f... ...Statutes, vol. i. p. 455. The Regents of the University annually visit the colleges and acad- emies, and make their report to the legislature. Their s... ...ture. Their super- intendence is not inefficient, for several reasons: the colleges in order to become corporations stand in need of a charter, which ... ...rs shown in the mode of elec- tion adopted by them – Creation of a special electoral body – Separate votes of these electors – Case in which the House... ... which it was proposed to obviate this second obstacle was to delegate the electoral powers of the nation to a body of representatives. This mode of e... ...en by Mr. Story (p. 508, or in the large edition Section 1388): “Dartmouth College in New Hampshire had been founded by a charter granted to certain i... ...an act changing the organization of the original provincial charter of the college, and transferring all the rights, privileges, and franchises from t...

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...ive land. Surprised by the aspect of the columns of marble which adorn the Electoral Palace, they went about admiring the grandiose effects of German ... ...e begun when we were only five years old, and continued through school and college? Where is Frederic?” He wept. Can it be that we cling more to a sen...

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... who was Senator from Kentucky, is now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in that State. John Quincy Adams went into the House of ... ... there, and was under the dominion of a quack doctor on one side, and of a college of rights of women female medical professors on the other. “I belie... ...vilege of attend- ing the funeral of President Felton, the head of Harvard College. A few months before I had seen him a strong man, apparently in per... ...is equals. At his installation as president, four ex-presidents of Harvard College assisted. Whether they were all present at his funeral I do not kno... ...nd Representatives sent by that State to Congress, and that thus a body or college of electors shall be formed equal in number to the two joint Houses... ... The election of the President is made by universal suffrage, and not by a college of electors. The words as they are written are still obeyed; but th...