If the was adopted states would change their election laws so that their electoral votes would automatically be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote.

The answer is : national vote plan
In the current voting system, the state law awarded all of state electoral votes in each separate states, which will disregard the rest of the votes in that states. the national vote plan will count those disregarded votes.

from the conditions of the working class in england by friedrich engels,the main idea is :

manchester's leaders hoped to oppress its working class to benefit factory owners.