The American founders are justifiably famous for their political wisdom. So why did they build the strange contraption called ...

Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's ...

It would also be an exhaustive — and exhausting — undertaking to find a new system that would appease enough lawmakers, as ...

It seems that every four years, we are told that, “This election is the most important election ever.” We have been ...

Maybe it would be a good thing if the former president won the popular vote for once—as long as he doesn’t win the election.

In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the Electoral College ...

For example, James Madison, who’s really kind of leading this discussion throughout the (Constitutional) Convention, he advocates for it. He says twice that he thinks that’s the best choice.

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

Breslin is the Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Chair of Political Science at Skidmore College and author of "A Constitution for ...

The United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional ...

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require protection for interests that would be overwhelmed by large ...