The Interstate Compact for a National Popular Vote would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide -- thus bypassing the Electoral College system without a constitutional amendment. This compact is now law in three states (MD, NJ, IL), and bills are pending in almost every other state legislature. Will this National Popular Vote initiative succeed? Whom will it benefit? Is it a triumph of federalism or an ill-fated constitutional end-run? Join the discussion...

Panelists:

Akhil Amar, Yale Law School professor

Jamie Raskin, Maryland State Senator and American University law professor

John Samples, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative
Government