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To: bvw
You disagree with history then!

Then point it out.

188 posted on 11/30/2008 2:31:55 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I have already done so. See De Tocgueville!

To buttress the duty of decision making, so as to chose a man fit for the office by way of highest moral character, to chose a man of obvious virtue, that is EXPECTED by the Founders for an Elector, I here extract Hamilton, from Federalist No. 68:

The people of each State shall choose a number of persons as electors, equal to the number of senators and representatives of such State in the national government, who shall assemble within the State, and vote for some fit person as President. Their votes, thus given, are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the President. ...

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. ... It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue.

Source: http://www.avagara.com/e_c/reference/00012601.htm


189 posted on 11/30/2008 2:44:15 PM PST by bvw
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