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![handle is hein.amenin/tstsec0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Testimony in Support of
the Electoral College
Martin Diamond
SENATOR BAYH: Our next witness is Professor Martin Diamond of the
Georgetown University. It is good to have you with us, sir.
MR. DIAMOND: Thank you. I have written a recently published booklet
on the issue we are discussing this morning. It is entitled The Electoral
College and the American Idea of Democracy. I submit that as my prepared
written statement to the committee and hope that it will be incorpo-
rated into the record.
SENATOR BAYH: It is so ordered.
MR. DIAMOND: If I may, I will make a very brief summarizing oral
statement to put forward the lead ideas which the committee may wish
to have.
SENATOR BAYH: Professor, I went through your book with great style
until I got to the last sentence. Then I had to find out what paradigm
meant.
MR. DIAMOND: And how did you make out? [Laughter.]
SENATOR BAYH: I had no reason to dispute Webster's definition.
MR. DIAMOND: Did you find it a useful word in the context? I'm just
trying to see if I got a passing grade.
SENATOR BAYH: It accurately describes your interpretation of the pur-
pose of the Electoral College.
MR. DIAMOND: I thank you for the passing grade.
SENATOR BAYH: I am used to being the gradee instead of the grader.
MR. DIAMOND: I have been sitting in the on-deck circle as the battle
with your previous witness was going on, watching you work the
corners, and I discovered that I am going to be the gradee this morning
myself.
SENATOR BAYH: I think the country will probably grade us both.
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