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The United States Supreme Court offers all the major documents relating to the Florida Election Cases pertaining to the 2000 Presidential election.

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The story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida is explored in the documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.

The great election uproar of 2000

In 1999, many of us thought that the Y2K software problem would be the biggest problem in the year 2000. Fortunately for us, it wasn't. Instead we were entertained by the spectacle of that astonishing event, the 2000 Presidential election. Do you remember what fun we had?

I had a blast. On these pages is a record of what fun I had. Here are five letters that I wrote to different publications. I was responding to commentaries made by editorialists and column writers. Four of the letters try to show how the columnists just plain got it wrong. Those three columnists were George Will, Robert Grossman of the Chicago Tribune (he merits two letters), and Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker. In the fifth letter I point out the merits of the arguments of Lani Guinier.

At the time I was struck dumbfounded by the arguments of Will, Grossman, and Hertzberg. They invoked the Founding Fathers to support their arguments. However, it was clear to me that they had not bothered to actually read what the Founding Fathers of our country had to say on the matter. The funniest one was Will's column. It was clear that he never bothered to actually read Federalist 47. Will quotes from this item written by James Madison and seems unaware that Madison then spent the rest of Federalist 47 and all of Federalist 48 demonstrating that the political principals of the statement that Will based his argument on, when strictly held, was both unwise and impractical. However, that did not stop Will from using this quote as the basis of his argument. Will's argument is specious.

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