Why do we still have the electoral college?

Part I. Origins: From the Constitution to the Twelfth Amendment

Part II. The long fight against winner-take-all: Electoral reform in the era of good feelings

Three uneasy pieces: the persistence of winner-take-all

Part III. A national popular vote

"A population anomalous" and a national popular vote, 1800-

An idea whose time has come

Last call for the twentieth century

Part IV. Stalemate: Resignation and innovation, 1979-.