Posted on 11/14/2016 12:05:22 PM PST by Kaslin
The progressives are determined to get rid of the Electoral College. Of course they are. Abolishing the Electoral College would complete their project of overthrowing America's unique federal system, begun about one hundred years ago.
The direct election of senators was the first and greatest victory of the progressives over the Framers of the Constitution. Made possible by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, it mortally wounded the Founders' system. Abolishing the Electoral College will finish the job. And the progressives mean to do just that.
If we want to understand the efforts of the Framers during that hot summer in 1787, we must see them as trying to design self-government with a sober assessment of human nature in mind. When in the next century Lord Acton wrote that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he captured in a ringing aphorism the view of the Founders.
This understanding of the effect of political power on human nature explains the Framers' focus on defining and limiting federal power. They did so by distributing power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government; preserving the political independence of the states; and creating a zone of liberty around the individual – even by further dividing the (supreme) legislative power itself, crafting two legislative bodies with separate powers and potentially competing interests.
Jefferson put it this way:
And Lord Acton put it this way:
Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It keeps far more voters relevant to the process.
Far, far more.
The genius of the Founding Fathers never ceases to amaze me.
A popular vote only shows 1 will, the people as just a population.
Electoral Colllege shows 3. Will of the people, by voters, by state, and thus, by the nation made up of people and the states.
It IS brilliant. It preserves the needs, wants and interests of ALL the many, widely-dispersed citizens of this country and the UNION which they form that consists of 50 STATES, and which protects them from a few widely dispersed, highly populated (largely filled with illegals) rats nests that could give a crap about the rest of America.
Quote time:
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. — Thomas Jefferson
I would call it “exceptionally insightful” from one of our Founding Fathers. Viva la Electoral College!!!!!!
A few more words about the Electoral College:
The Electoral College is one of the wonderful constitutional devices that implements America’s unique representative, republican, and decentralized form of government. Technically, America is not a democracy which tends towards centralization and the “tyranny of the majority”. America is a republic, giving powerful voice to the minority as well as the majority. The Electoral College implements decentralized power by appointing a representative number of state electors throughout the country as Steve Feinstein from the American Thinker explains below.
“Thank G-d we have [the Electoral College], or else California and N.Y. would determine every election. Every time....[T]he Electoral College brilliantly smooths out the variances in the voting proclivities among states and regions. Farmers in the middle of the country and importers and exporters on the shore get roughly equal say, as do Madison Ave. execs and factory workers in Tennessee...without the Electoral College, the country’s entire population is subject to the disproportionate voting preferences of the few most populous states.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillary_wins_the_popular_vote__not_.html
Exactly.
Remember, the Electoral Collage is a constitutional issue and can only be removed or changed by a Constitutional Amendment. The left can go pound sand.
If the electoral college was dissolved, every Presidential election would focus on the 10 to 20 largest urban centers. That would be totally nuts to run a country in that manner. Since it gives an advantage to Dems today, of course they want it.
It sure does.
decent article about it from awhile ago
Very well said, and so true.
Most children who graduate from high school and college today are too ignorant of philosophy to understand the brilliance of the Founding Documents.
And that is by design of our nation’s curricula-—Common Core, NCLB, Goals 2000-—all intentionally designed to destroy critical thinking and the understanding of Natural Law so children are completely devoid of Common Sense (Reality) for the irrational and are completely unable to think for self (Individualism (Natural Rights only from God) is being wiped of the face of the earth).
Democracy was HATED by all the Founders. They knew it is emotional (group-think) and will result in socialism, then communism, since it prevents Individualism (destroys individual natural rights (as much as a lynch mob does). Our Republic is for INDIVIDUAL natural rights—that are RATIONAL and come from God only-—the ONLY kind of Rights.
Group-think (emotional “thinking” where words are meaningless) is all that is forced into the curricula/testing-—to control belief system and force satanic/Marxist worldview on the masses. The Words and History of America are all warped and revised to mean nothing-—even boys are girls today and Satanism is the only religion allowed in the classroom.
Our fore-fathers had providential inspiration for the creation of our government. They were wise because they had escaped a tyrannical form of government that did not protect the rights of the people. They were so wise, would have loved to have met some of them.
It would require a Constitutional Amendment, and I doubt you could get the necessary states to ratify it, even if it got passed by Congress. Not in my lifetime, anyway.
I’ve never understood the term “federalism.” It sounds like consolidation of power in a central government, but it really means sovereignty of states.
It was a God given genius.
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