[Madam Theophilus]

Agreed! Didn’t it take something like 36 votes in the House to elect Jefferson President?

[Madam Theophilus]

I meant, 36 rounds of voting

[Jacquerie]

Something like that.

Imagine if the 17th Amendment did not exist and State legislatures alone (no popular input) decided whom to nominate for President/Vice Prez?

I know one thing, the welfare state and the fourth branch, the administrative state, would hardly exist.