The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders' Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule
by Tara Ross
Tara Ross offers a defense of the Electoral College and its continuing role in American government. Focusing on the Founders’ plan, this book considers how the system is designed to preserve representative rule and protect the country from the risks of unchecked majoritarian power.
About This Book
Tara Ross examines the Electoral College and its place in the American political system.
The book focuses on the role the Founders’ plan is intended to play in preserving representative government.
It presents the Electoral College as a safeguard against what the title describes as mob rule.
Readers interested in elections, constitutional design, and the structure of American government will find a focused discussion of this distinctive institution.
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