Another Elephant in the Living Room

The New Media Journal ^ | October 23, 2008 | Paul R. Hollrah

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In spite of the best efforts of social science teachers over many decades, few Americans understand the purpose or function of the Electoral College.

The Founding Fathers had some very specific reasons for creating the Electoral College. Aside from their insistence that the president and vice president be elected by the states... not by the people and not by the state legislatures... their primary concern was that a foreign power might one day attempt to achieve through corruption and political intrigue, that which they could not achieve on the battlefield.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper No. 68, “These most deadly adversaries of republican government (cabal, intrigue, etc.)” might come from many quarters, “but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?”

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The “best efforts of social science teachers?” It is to laugh!! It takes way too much time to teach multiculturalism, and acceptance of deviancy.

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Exactamundo!