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.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.