10-18-2016, 05:51 PM
(10-18-2016, 05:42 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I disagree with this. Those who were the most directly influential of the Constitution and abandoning the Articles were not fans of the masses, and it shows in how who could vote in 1788 and how we elected the President. While Thomas Jefferson certainly was a man who promoted the common man and farmer over the elite and politicians, we wasn't around for the writing of the Constitution, and Madison and Hamilton weren't subscribing to that.
Yeah, we take for granted the electoral system we have. I don't think most people realize that the only elected officials at the federal level we were actually intended to elect are members of the House of Representatives. I actually think it is one of the problems we face now is that we are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with the way we have changed the system over time in some ways. I think we've screwed with the presidential system we had and now it isn't functioning as well as intended.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
