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Twice in as many decades, a president won the office without the popular vote. Both times, people cried foul on the Electoral College. Detractors claim the institution is antiquated and impedes democracy, but Tara Ross-a lawyer and constitutional scholar-argues that the Electoral College is the best defense of America's constitutional republic.The Indispensable Electoral College makes a winning argument for a necessary protection against "rigged" party elections, coastal elites, and DC insiders who wish to make a career of unchecked ambition.
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Tara Ross is nationally recognized for her expertise on the Electoral College. She is the author of Why We Need the Electoral College (2019) , The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders' Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule (2017) , We Elect A President: The Story of our Electoral College (2016) , and Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College (2d ed. 2012) . She is also the author of She Fought Too: Stories of Revolutionary War Heroines (2019) , and a co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State (2008) (with Joseph C. Smith, Jr.) . Her Prager University video, Do You Understand the Electoral College? , is Prager's most-viewed video ever, with more than 60 million views. Tara often appears as a guest on a variety of talk shows nationwide, and she regularly addresses civic, university, and legal audiences. She's contributed to many law reviews and newspapers, including the National Law Journal, USA Today, the Washington Examiner, The Hill, The Washington Times, and FoxNews.com. She's addressed audiences at institutions such as the Cooper Union, Brown University, the Dole Institute of Politics, and Mount Vernon. She's appeared on Fox News, CSPAN, NPR, and a variety of other national and local shows.Tara is a retired lawyer and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Review of Law & Politics. She obtained her B.A. from Rice University and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. She resides in Dallas with her husband and children.
