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Dodging the Bullet: Election Mechanics and the Problem of the Twenty-third Amendment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2003

David A. Crockett
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Is assistant professor of political science at Trinity University. His research interests include the American presidency, elections, and American political development. His research has appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, and his dissertation won the Best Dissertation on the Presidency for 1999 from the Center for Presidential Studies. He is the author of The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History (Texas A&M University Press, 2002).

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