Presidential and parliamentary elections in France in 2007 provided evidence of a reversal of Europe-wide trends of falling support for governing parties, rising support for parties of protest and high rates of abstention, and of the specifically French pattern of serial defeat for incumbent...

This Note addresses the constitutionality of National Popular Vote (NPV) legislation. National Popular Vote is a movement to reform the electoral college via state statute to turn the Presidential election into a national one. Four states (Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, and Hawaii) have already...