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To: arrogantsob
There was another thread that discussed this in great detail and I believe the majority concurred with your view. According to some they believed that as there were several political parties back then it would be reasonable for the electors to award the presidency to the candidate receiving the second largest number of votes. Today the field is narrowed to two major parties-hence McCain would automatically receive the electoral votes if the electors followed the constitution.
1,829 posted on 11/17/2008 3:22:49 PM PST by upcountry miss
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To: upcountry miss

Our Founders abhorred the idea of political parties (factions was their name for them) and considered them one of the gravest dangers to the Republic. They also realized from close reading of the classics of Greece and Rome that democracy was not reliable and chose a representative republic.

There is nothing in the Constitution which supports political parties or gives them any preferential standing in the political process.

The Founders’ intentions wrt factions and democracy only lasted through the first Washington administration then Hamilton’s successful financial program drove Madison and Jefferson into setting up the forerunner of the Democrat party, the Democrat-Republican. It was established to thwart Hamilton and its adherents eventually drove him from politics and killed him.


1,840 posted on 11/17/2008 3:33:54 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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