Minority rule

[BmorePat87]

(10-14-2020, 04:13 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I thought the electoral college was compromised on to balance the Prez election between the big cities and the non-big citiy areas of the country.

Also the founders had to know they were creating a two party system by default of how the Constitution was formed. Practically every election after Washington it was a two party race, with a few rare times a minority party replaced one of the two parties. Maybe a college professor of mine in poliical science was wrong, but he even clearly taught that the two party system is solely because of how the founders framed the constitution.

It wasn't really big city versus rural.

There were a number of compromises that created the EC. They included:

-Representation for slaves
-Desire for the legislative to elect the President
-Big states vs small states
-only the educated can vote
-let state legislature get involved

the EC created a very open system. States could allow everyone to vote or just a few. States could allocate electors however they wanted. States didn't have to hold elections unless they wanted to.