Publication Date
1970
Abstract
The events surrounding the Democratic and Republican National Conventions of 1968 serve as adequate evidence that the traditional two-party system and the nominating conventions may be in for serious trouble. A lack of support for the two-party system as it exists today is apparent from the dissent and civil disobedience which accompanied the conventions, the formation of a third party by George Wallace and the threat of a fourth party by Eugene McCarthy. Moreover, the Supreme Court has recently extended the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to en- compass the rights of third-party candidates to appear on the ballot. Thus dissidents both inside and outside the major parties will find it easier to bring their causes before the people. The American electorate may now have to determine whether to retain a two-party system- or move to a multi-party system common in many European countries.
Recommended Citation
C., G. L.
(1970)
"Selecting and Certifying National Political Convention Delegates-A Party or a State Right?,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 4:
No.
4, Article 13.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol4/iss4/13