The 17th amendment to the United States Constitution brought direct elections of U.S. Senators. The amendment was ratified about a month into the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The Electoral College – although only a remnant from a time when there typically weren't popular elections for the United States Presidency – was left intact in the Wilson Era.
The Electoral College was subject to much critique and subsequent defense – in the Old World as well as in North America – in connection with the presidential election in the year 2000.
Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily now tells us that legislators are working at abolishing, or at least undermining, the Electoral College.
As if those United States don't have too much democracy already. Let's pour more fuel on the fire!
Friday, April 6, 2007
The Electoral College
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Let's hope they don't succeed in abolishing it.
The Electoral College is what keeps America a conservative/libertarian country (for the most part). With no electoral college, presidential candidates would just concentrate on pleasing leftwing states such as CA and NY, instead of more conservative NH and SC.
Great blog, by the way. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for the kind, encouraging comment from the gentleman from the state of Colorado!
As for the Electoral College, I consider the American Republic to have come far in the process of decline. However, I basically only see a downside in replacing the college with a direct national popular election.
The American system does not thus far – formally at least – recognize the concept of a national electorate.
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