ABSTRACT
On the basis of the adhoc decisions of the second Round Table Conference and the communal award, the British government convened the third conference in November, 1932, to draft the constitution for India. Coterminous elections of president and Congress would go far to strengthen the voters' feelings, systematically diminshed by the separation of power and the methods of nominating and electing federal officials, that they are sharing in the creation of the government and the opposition. More controversial will be the proposal to reduce the power of the Senate that has many admirers among scholars and perhaps has increased its public support by the Watergate investigation of 1973. Election of the president—and of congressmen-at-large—in a national constituency would end the special leverage enjoyed by more populous states by virtue of the unit rule that gives the entire electoral vote of each state to the party with a plurality of the presidential vote.
