11-09-2016, 11:48 PM
(11-09-2016, 11:30 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Talking of the Constitution, How does SCOTUS interpret this:
"Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress."
The framers did not want it to be a popular vote. If you support popular vote, that is fine; but don't point to the Constitution for support.
I have already discussed why the EC was set up. I fully understand that an amendment would be necessary to change this. But the EC was set up so the people, the land owning white men, could elect oligarchs in their local areas to entrust with voting for president because the voting population would not have the ability to know much about candidates for an office like that and so didn't trust the population to make that choice. The need for this is gone, we should change it.
"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
