Dale Read's 1971 and 1975 Papers
In 1971, Dale Read Jr., then a student at Duke University Law School and later a practicing attorney in the Seattle area, wrote the first known written discussion of the ideas underlying the National Popular Vote Compact. Click here for Read’s 105-presearch paper in 1971 entitled “Electoral College Reform: Direct Popular Vote Without a Constitutional Amendment.”[1]
Click here for 1976 shortened version of Read's 1971 paper that was published in the Washington Law Review.[2]
[1] Read, Dale Jr. 1971. Electoral College Reform: Direct Popular Vote Without a Constitutional Amendment. Independent Research Paper. Duke University Law School.
[2] Read, Dale Jr. 1976. Direct election of the president without a constitutional amendment: A call for state action. Washington Law Review. Volume 51. Number 2. Pages 321–349. https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2109&context=wlr