Tag: Federalist Paper No. 68
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The National Popular Vote Fallacy
“STATE OFFICIALS FOR A DAY” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Nov. 18, 2016) — My most recent column exposing the fraud that is the national popular vote movement has finally struck home. On Tuesday, November 15, I received a lengthy response from a staff member of the National Popular Vote (NPV)…
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Trump’s Path to the White House
“THE STAKES ARE FAR TOO GREAT” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Nov. 5, 2016) — If one were to seriously contemplate the outcome of next week’s presidential election by considering nothing more than the daily deluge of the top eight or ten polling organizations, it would surely make one’s head explode. …
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Amending the U.S. Constitution by Fiat
“NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN…” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Oct. 24, 2015) — While attending a recent GOP meeting in our rural eastern Oklahoma county, I was shocked to discover that we have a substantial number of normally common-sense Republicans who, while quite passionate in their political…
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The Founders’ Worst Fears
“THE POSTER BOY FOR NATIONAL SUICIDE” by Paul R. Hollrah, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Mar. 27, 2015) — As the Founding Fathers met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1778, producing word-for-word the greatest governing document in all of recorded history, they were haunted by a number of major concerns. Among their most critical…
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Beware the National Popular Vote
THE FRAMERS INSTITUTED THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOR SOUND REASON by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2012 (May 25, 2012) — In his introduction to the book, Every Vote Counts: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote, former Republican congressman and presidential candidate John B. Anderson had this to say: “I believe the occupant of…