Download or read book Who Should Be Number 2 Picking a Vice Presidential Candidate written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Co. presents a lesson plan entitled "Who Should Be Number 2? Picking a Vice-Presidential Candidate," by Elyse Fischer and Barbara H. Scott and published July 24, 2000. The lesson plan is for students in grades six through twelve. Students explore the role of the vice president and the qualities that a presidential candidate must look for while choosing the running mate. The authors include the amount of time required, objectives, materials needed, and the procedures of the lesson plan.
Download or read book Picking the Vice President written by Elaine C. Kamarck and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Picking the Vice President Has Changed—and Why It Matters During the past three decades, two important things have changed about the U.S. vice presidency: the rationale for why presidential candidates choose particular running mates, and the role of vice presidents once in office. This is the first major book focusing on both of those elements, and it comes at a crucial moment in American history. Until 1992, presidential candidates tended to select running mates simply to “balance” the ticket, sometimes geographically, sometimes to guarantee victory in an must-carry state, sometimes ideologically, and sometimes for all three reasons. Bill Clinton changed that in 1992 when he selected Al Gore as his running mate, saying the experience and compatibility of the Tennessee senator would make him an ideal “partner” in governing. Gore's two immediate successors, Dick Cheney and Joe Biden, played similar roles under Presidents Bush and Obama. Mike Pence seems to also be following in that role as well, although the first draft of history on the Trump Administration is still being written. What enabled this change in the vice presidency was not so much the personal characteristics of recent vice presidents but instead changes in the presidential nomination system. The increased importance of primaries and the overwhelming need to raise money have diminished the importance of “balance” on the ticket and increased the importance of “partnership”—selecting a partner who can help the president govern. This book appears as Joe Biden prepares to choose his own running mate. No matter who wins the November 2020 elections, what Elaine Kamarck writes will be of interest to anyone following current affairs, students of American government, and journalists whose job will be to cover the next administration.
Download or read book Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1976-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (84) S.J. Res. 3, (84) S.J. Res. 9, (84) S.J. Res. 10, (84) S.J. Res. 27, (84) S.J. Res. 30, (84) S.J. Res. 31, (84) S.J. Res. 53.
Download or read book Do Running Mates Matter written by Christopher J. Devine and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American vice presidency, as the saying goes, “is not worth a bucket of warm spit.” Yet vice presidential candidates, many people believe, can make all the difference in winning—or losing—a presidential election. Is that true, though? Did Sarah Palin, for example, sink John McCain’s campaign in 2008? Did Joe Biden help Barack Obama win? Do running mates actually matter? In the first book to put this question to a rigorous test, Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko draw upon an unprecedented range of empirical data to reveal how, and how much, running mates influence voting in presidential elections. Building on their previous work in The VP Advantage and evidence from over 200 statistical models spanning the 1952 to 2016 presidential elections, the authors analyze three pathways by which running mates might influence vote choice. First, of course, they test for direct effects, or whether evaluations of the running mate influence vote choice among voters in general. Next, they test for targeted effects—if, that is, running mates win votes among key subsets of voters who share their gender, religion, ideology, or geographic identity. Finally, the authors examine indirect effects—that is, whether running mates shape perceptions of the presidential candidate who selected them, which in turn influence vote choice. Here, in this last category, is where we see running mates most clearly influencing presidential voting—especially when it comes to their qualifications for holding office and taking over as president, if necessary. Picking a running mate from a key voting bloc probably won’t make a difference, the authors conclude. But picking an experienced, well-qualified running mate will make the presidential candidate look better to voters—and win some votes. With its wealth of data and expert analysis, this finely crafted study, the most comprehensive to date, finally provides clear answers to one of the most enduring questions in presidential politics: can the running mate make a difference in this election?
Download or read book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications for Voting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voting Rights in America written by Richard A. Glenn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States. Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Following a historical overview is an examination of current controversies in addition to profiles of key persons and reprint important documents. The book also includes a perspectives chapter featuring ten original essays on various topics related to voting rights, as well as an annotated bibliography and chronology. The variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays about voting rights, a timeline, and useful terms in the voting rights discourse, allow this book to stand out from others in the field. It is intended for readers at the high school through community college levels, along with adult readers who are interested in the topic.
Download or read book Election of the President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Authentic Constitution written by Arthur E. Palumbo and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Palumbo presents the origin and purpose of America's great foundational document and explores the founding principles of the American republic. He details and clarifies its provisions for the proper powers of Congress, monetary policy and taxation, the government's role in regulating commerce, in war, and in foreign policy, the right to bear arms, immigration and other hot-button issues in a way that cuts through many of the misconceptions that confuse citizens and leave them confounded.The book strictly supports "originalism," which is the idea that the Constitution should be understood in accordance with the meanings advanced by those who wrote and ratified it. However, it also takes account of how far we have gone off course and recognizes that the changes required to get us back on track again cannot be made all at once.In 2008, Alan Keyes, a Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, described the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in the following way: "The doctrine of unalienable rights is to the Constitution what the laws of physics are to architecture or engineering. Those laws are not repeated in every plan or architect's drawing, but they are assumed and must be respected or the results will be defective and dangerous." It is clear that the founding principles of the Declaration are intimately connected with the Constitution and it would be unwise to ignore them or the bond that the two documents share.The style of the book is scholarly, but not overly so. It is well documented and contains illustrations and tables. In several cases, documents are transcribed from the originals. The approach is generally as follows: First, an explanation of the original meaning of a particular section of the Constitution is provided. Second, the consequences of not following it are revealed. Third, a solution is offered to get the country back on course, always with a focus on returning to our founding principles and the Constitution.The Authentic Constitution (1) Provides detailed evidence to support the contention that the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Amendments were not properly ratified; (2) It unreservedly supports the view that the judiciary is not the sole arbiter of the Constitution and that only the parties to the case are ever bound by a court s decision; (3) It supports the view that the Bill of Rights is applicable only to the federal government and that each state has its own enumeration of rights that is applicable to each state; (4) It maintains that complete control over immigration was never constitutionally transferred from the states to the federal government and that this transfer could only have been accomplished properly by a constitutional amendment; and (5) It supports the view that although the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, ... [cannot] be infringed (Second Amendment), it equally supports the notion that each state must maintain an active militia, composed of the armed citizenry of the state (the well regulated Militia of the Second Amendment), as the Constitution requires. 'In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution' - - Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions with Information on States Holding Presidential Primaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications for Voting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Election of the President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Relating to Elections written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
