1 House of Representatives Elections and American Political Development2 Founding-Era Thought and the Selection for Office 3 The Founding-Era House of Representatives and the SMD system4 House of Representatives Elections in the Early Republic, 1788-18245 The Jacksonian-Whig Era and the 1842 SMD Mandate6 The Progressive Era : Consolidation and Institutionalization, 1870-19307 The Court Years, 1960-Present8 The Performance of the US SMD System9 An Affirmative Argument for SMD Elections