Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election.Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election. Edited by Mark Whitman. (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 349. $65.00, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-58826-204-9.) Mention Bush v. Gore Introduction In Bush v. Gore 531 U.S. 98, 121 S.Ct. 525, 148 L.Ed.2d 388 (U.S. 2000), the U.S Supreme Court ruled that the system devised by the Florida Supreme Court to recount the votes cast in the state during the 2000 U.S. (2000) to almost anyone of voting age today, and you likely will provoke pro·voke tr.v. pro·voked, pro·vok·ing, pro·vokes 1. To incite to anger or resentment. 2. To stir to action or feeling. 3. To give rise to; evoke: provoke laughter. one of two responses. The first blends teeth-grinding with intense, often intemperate in·tem·per·ate adj. Not temperate or moderate; excessive, especially in the use of alcoholic beverages. in·tem  per·ate·ly adv. comments against the
Supreme Court and President George W. Bush. The other begins with
eye-rolling, moves on to moans of "Not this again," and ends
with the command, "Get over it. The case is over. Bush won."
Whichever answer you receive, one thing is clear: the events surrounding
the 2000 presidential election still matter. Despite the passage of six
years and the events of September 11, 2001, we still care about the
election that the judges decided.
What exactly did the judges decide? Yes, their rulings effectively determined who would be the forty-third president. But the issues were much broader than just who won the presidency. The 2000 electoral mess in Florida threw into question the entire scope of our electoral process--and with it, the legitimacy LEGITIMACY. The state of being born in wedlock; that is, in a lawful manner. 2. Marriage is considered by all civilized nations as the only source of legitimacy; the qualities of husband and wife must be possessed by the parents in order to make the offspring of our constitutional structures of democracy. Are election recounts An election recount takes place in the event that the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close, and that therefore a recount of the ballots is necessary to insure an accurate result. Notable recounts
Mark Whitman's Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election explores this process by means of reprinting re·print n. 1. Something that has been printed again, especially: a. A new printing that is identical to an original; a reimpression. b. A separately printed excerpt; an offprint. 2. and analyzing the key documents generated by this debate. For Whitman, this means going beyond the primary case of Bush v. Gore to look at questions regarding the constitutionality of recounts and the rules debate over the deadline for certifying votes. Combining court documents and lawyers' briefs with selected contemporary editorial comments and supplementing both with his own summary analysis, Whitman aims to clarify what the courts did--and what they did not do. Whitman understands that the 2000 election controversy was both a political and a legal conflict. His job, as he sees it, is to translate the second of these conflicts--the legal--into terms understandable to the average reader. Overall, Whitman succeeds in his task. His description and analysis of the events explored by the documents are clear and effective. The documents and contemporary editorial commentary, in turn, are also appropriate and collectively tell a fascinating story of legal conflict and hard judicial choices. One can quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil. 2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. at the extent of Whitman's editing of these documents. There are times when the documents are too edited, leaving out important information that would have been useful to the reader. Clearly, Whitman is opting for breadth of coverage rather than depth in the organization of his book. Yet the overall effect is a clear description of the legal process at work in 2000. CHARLES L. ZELDEN Nova Southeastern University History Originally named Nova University of Advanced Technology,[7] the university was chartered by the state of Florida in 1964[8][9] as a graduate institution in the physical and social sciences. |
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