Liberal Loony Progressives that either don’t understand the Electoral College or want to be more like a European Democracy, are once more attempting to eliminate how we have elected President’s the last two centuries.
Both California and Massachusetts Progressives, are working on plans to throw out the Electoral College and to choose a candidate that wins the majority vote.
Why is this dangerous? Why is the MSM ignoring this important story?
Over the last two centuries, there have been Constitutional Amendments have been proposed more than 700 times to abolish the Electoral College, never a one has come close to being adopted.
The Framers of the Constitution did not believe that political contests for President should be declared by majority rule, rejecting pure democracy as a great menace to liberty, James Madison wrote in Federalist No 10 “…that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person can admit of no cure for the mischief of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by the majority of the whole…and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths…”
Our Founding Fathers debated electing the President by a direct popular vote and also by Congressional selection. The idea of a popular vote was summarily rejected because the more populous states such as California today, and their political, economical and ideological persuasions could elect a President with little to no influence of the less populous states and a Congressional appointment of a President was antithetical to the separation of powers—the compromise between the two was the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is as important today as it was two centuries ago. Candidates for President are forced to campaign throughout the entire country instead of only focusing their campaigns on the most populous states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania while ignoring the least populous states and territories such as Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, Delaware, Guam, Northern Mariana Island and American Samoa.
Our Founding Fathers, “…in their wisdom and appreciation of history gave us representative government enshrined in a Constitutional Republic that has been resilient, enduring and tested. In a moment of acrimonious passion and partisanship, let us not discard, piecemeal, a precious gift that has served us well for over 200 years.”
More here from Canada Free Press
Well the electoral college may have been significant in blocking off one direct route to an important lever of political power, but there were many other levers of political power in the United States. I would say, that in fidelity to the original design principles, architectural defenses such as the electoral college are largely irrelevant now.
The author is praising the locks on the front door, after the foundations of the entire house have been hollowed out.
I would love to have lived in a real America, but that’s impossible now – all that’s left is just the superficial remnants of what was once a great nation.
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