The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000
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"The Longest Night provides a comprehensive and insightful look at our country's most fascinating election. The contributions from political insiders are utterly absorbing. Sharply written and edited; an impressive collaboration."—Susan Estrich, author of Sex and Power"Arthur Jacobson and Michel Rosenfeld have provided a very important civic service. Their collection of commentaries on the disputed presidential election of 2000 brings all the confusion and frenzy of that event into clear intellectual focus. On one level it documents the most lively and informed reaction to the legal aftermath of the election. But it does more. It contains a range of erudite and well-reasoned interpretations, not just of the law and court decisions, but also of political institutions, the constitutional history, and the election itself."—Mary P Ryan, author of Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century"The great strength of this book is its inclusion of international perspectives on the American presidential debacle of 2000. After reading the insights of commentators and scholars from France, Italy, Germany, and elsewhere, it becomes clear precisely why, like an aging Humpty-Dumpty, our patchwork set of elitist assumptions, idiosyncratic practices, and archaic democratic institutions came tumbling down in Florida. It is too late simply to put Humtpy-Dumpty back together again. The Longest Night reminds us that the United States has much to learn from those countries that are boldly advandcing the future of democracy and leaving us in their dust."—Lani Guinier, coauthor of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy Susan Estrich The Longest Night provides a comprehensive and insightful look at our country's most fascinating election. The contributions from political insiders are utterly absorbing. Sharply written and edited; an impressive collaboration.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Cast and Chronology221Equal Protection for Votes472Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode503Disputing Elections694A Badly Flawed Election895Exchange between Ronald Dworkin and Charles Fried1006Bush v. Gore: Three Strikes for the Constitution, the Court, and Democracy, but There Is Always Next Season1117The Unbearable Rightness of Bush v. Gore1448The Ghostwriters1899Notes for the Unpublished Supplemental Separate Opinions in Bush v. Gore21210Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup22711The Many Faces of Bush v. Gore23612Springtime for Rousseau25013Machiavelli in Robes? The Court in the Election25614A Flawed yet Resilient System: A View from Jerusalem27915Constitutional Council Review of Presidential Elections in France and a French Judicial Perspective on Bush v. Gore29516Seven Reasons Why Bush v. Gore Would Have Been Unlikely in Germany31817Bush v. Gore: A View from Italy32218Democracy in America: A European Perspective on the Millennial Election33219Weighing the Alternatives: Reform or Deform?34720The Electoral College: A Fatally Flawed Institution36121The Electoral College: A Modest Contribution37122Popular Election of the President without a Constitutional Amendment391List of Contributors397Index401
