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(06-11-2020, 02:00 AM)hollodero Wrote: Interesting, didn't know half of it. I heard about counting blacks as 3/5 people though. What a gracious gift of God your constitution is.

Ah, that really nauseates me. How everyone, left or right, bows to the everlasting genius of slavery proponents.

Btw. letting Congress select the president imho is actually a good idea. Also, I suppose it's saffe to say creating responsible voters was not one of the major motivations for the EC.

Yea, there are some serious fundamental issues with the Constitution, specifically in how it approaches people of color and how it approaches the right to vote and competency of the electorate. 

The argument against a parliamentary system is that an independent executive ensures more checks and balances. The further divided the powers of government are, the harder it is for there to be tyranny. 

However, the EC provides for Congress selecting POTUS if no one gets a majority of EC votes, which happened 4 elections in. The FF assumed this would happen more often than not, so it was a way to appease those who wanted Congress to select.

And, yea, I would say the EC does not concern itself with creating responsible voters. If anything it presumes irresponsibility of the electorate and gives the duties of multiple elections (POTUS and Senate) over to an elite few. The whole premise of the EC was "less educated people will pick educated people to pick the president".