12-26-2016, 09:15 AM
(12-25-2016, 11:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Straight popular goes against the Constitution and the whole premise of a United States process. Each state must have their say. I have mentioned before that a state proportional EC process is one L could get behind.
Which is why it would take an amendment, which would make a popular vote constitutional. Lots of things weren't constitutional until amendments were passed such as suffrage for women and a number of other things. I've always been a bit Madisonian in my approach to our government, and I understand his argument that because of suffrage for the people being so hard to come by in certain states that a popular vote would be unlikely, though would be the ideal. The EC was a good compromise. But, right now the EC serves only to disenfranchise the people, not protect their vote, and so should be abolished.
But at least proportional distribution of electors is one step in the right direction.
"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
