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To: metmom; All
"Their major focus is trying to get members of the U.S. Electoral College to change their vote, arguing that Clinton should be the next president because 60.47 Americans voted for her, compared to 60 million for Trump."

Electoral College members have no constitutional obligation to honor a petition.

Also note that the Founding States had decided not to give ordinary voters the power to elect either POTUS or senators. The fact that voters now do so is a consequence of the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement butchering the intentions of the Founding States as enumerated in the Constitution as evidenced by the 12th Amendment. (The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.)

Misguided, low-information voters evidently do not understand the following about the federal government. Military issues aside, one of the very few things that their votes for federal leaders actually win for them where domestic policy is concerned is a voice in how the US Mail Service (1.8.7) is run.

In other words, most federal domestic policy is based on stolen 10th Amendment-protected state powers. So president-elect Trump should either politically “force” the corrupt feds to surrender state powers that they have stolen from the states back to the states, or let the states ratify amendments to the Constitution to justify the stolen powers that the state would agree that the feds can keep.

50 posted on 11/12/2016 11:07:29 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

There were no “stolen” powers from the states.


55 posted on 11/12/2016 11:15:50 AM PST by arrogantsob (Nationalist, Patriot, Trumpman, Hater of the Media)
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To: Amendment10

> Electoral College members have no constitutional obligation to honor a petition.

True.

State legislatures direct how electors are chosen and many states have laws which bind electors.


59 posted on 11/12/2016 11:19:49 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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