I can not believe the conservative AZ house passed this law. I need to research this.
"Will take effect"? Did Congress pass this?
I can not believe the conservative AZ house passed this law. I need to research this.
Notice how several Republican-controlled state legislatures have approved this bill. 105 Electoral votes doesn't seem like much to overcome. Does that somehow trigger a federal law?
There are serious reasons for small states to prefer the electoral college. Consider, for instance, the federal land and other resources which exists within various states.
Suddenly, NY and CA would effectively be put in a position to totally dominate federal policy with respect to land within the other 48 states, by virtue of practically controlling who can be elected President.
America is a federal Republic of sovereign states. We don't need excessive democracy. It's a harbinger of Tyranny. It's time to dispense with the notion that pure democracy should be some kind of goal to be aspired to. What matters are the rights of the Individuals, and, by logical extension, States, and no Mob will ever have the right to to usurp those tandem pillars of American Freedom.
States' rights are not only a quaint tradition: they're real, and Liberty is designed to flow from the individual upward, not the top down.
Thus, we should all be educated enough to resist such erosion of a properly conceived and well-balanced system.
People would to well to read the Federalist Papers...
It’s true. However, we’ve been talking to them and I don’t think they’re going to try it again.