Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment to scrap the Electoral College. Citizens would vote directly for President, as they do for all other elected officials. If no candidate got at least 40% of the vote, a run-off between the top two aspirants would follow. Such a system would not have changed the outcome last year, but it would have eliminated the twin risks inherent in the present constitutional practice: that a candidate running second in the popular vote would get a majority of electoral votes, and that the failure of any candidate to get a majority would throw...
Shuddering at the prospect of deadlocked elections being settled by Congress, Thomas Jefferson called the Electoral College system "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." No fewer than 500 attempts have been made to reform the procedure, but none has ever got past Congress. Now it appears that electoral reform is an idea whose time has come...
Witnesses before the committee argued that both the district and proportional approaches would perpetuate some of the worst abuses of the present system. Nonetheless, the direct method faces formidable obstacles. The heavy vote may crystalize opposition to the amendment among rural and traditional Congressmen in the House and Senate-and the amendment needs a two-thirds majority for passage in each body...
Until just a few years ago, when rising social consciousness focused attention on the inequities and inefficiencies of the welfare system, there was no such thing as welfare law. "The welfare system existed for 30 years without scrutiny or challenge," says Lee Albert, 32, the center's kinetic director...
...earlier meeting, the Soc Rel Department had approved a special procedure for certification of sectionmen without specifically approving Soc Rel 148-149. Objections had also been raised against the grading system of the course at that time...