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To: GoldStandard

Would it not take a change to the Constitution to accomplish this? I had a prof one time that said “Don’t ever let the Constitution be changed. Once it is open for change, more things will be changed and it will not be for the good of the people. The Constitution is fine the way it is.”


9 posted on 04/07/2009 8:26:30 AM PDT by RC2
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To: RC2; GoldStandard

There’s no Constitutional mandate that tells electors how they have to vote, the only mandate is that they do meet and vote.

So, legally, a state can dictate that it’s electors vote any way the law perscribes.

Tradition has held that they’ve always voted to represent the desire of their states’ constituents.

If these states choose to change their laws mandating that their electors ignore the will of their own consitituents, there’s not much those of us in the other states can do about it.

The idea of a Representative Republic is basically being flushed down...


61 posted on 04/07/2009 10:19:55 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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