Judith A. Best
Professor, State University of New York at Cortland
Judith A. Best is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at SUNY Cortland, where she has taught since 1973. Her teaching areas are political theory, American government, American political thought, and jurisprudence. Her published books include The Choice of the People? Debating the Electoral College and The Case Against Direct Election of the President: A Defense of the Electoral College. The following is from a September 4, 1997, hearing held by the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee on "Proposals for Electoral College Reform."The Federal principle is one of the two fundamental structural principles of our…