Professive Downside Purging Electoral College--All Other States Can Challenge Illegals & Felons

Freep | 02-27-2019 | Charles Oconnell

[itsahoot]

Same in Oregon..but I believe there is voter fraud.

What you think marking and sending a ballot through a specific mail box to God knows where to be counted or not by God knows, who is ripe for fraud? </s>

[Political Junkie Too]

But the terms of the compact can't violate the Constitution.

A state cannot agree to give up its Constitutional power, nor can the compacting states deny non-compacting states their Constitutional powers, even incidentally by virtue of the existence of their compact.

This argument is similar to the one posed by James Madison regarding a state's right to secede.

LETTER FROM MR. MADISON ON THE RIGHT OF SECESSION.

Madison argues that the ratification of the Constitution was a compact between the states, and as such, each state has equal say in all matters. When one state declares itself to secede unilaterally, it says that its own decision is elevated above all the rest.

Madison then suggests that if a state declares its own desire supreme over the others, then that right extends to all the other states too. That means that if a state has a right to secede from the others, then the others have the right to secede from it. In other words, a body of states has the right to oust a state against its wishes, which is a dangerous precedent.

Applying Madison's reasoning to the National Popular Vote compact, it would suggest that the compacting states desire to use their own unbalanced popular votes to select the President elevates their decision above all the rest.

The compacting states are effectively ousting the non-compacting states from the Union as regards the selection of the President.

-PJ