Kristol, Dershowitz Slam Effort to Rig Electoral College

Conservatives and leading liberals slammed the campaign to effectively end the Electoral College's role in presidential elections, saying that the National Popular Vote Compact Law circumvents the Constitution, saying it resembled President Barack Obama's abuse of the law through his extensive use of executive orders.

"It is pretty startling," Bill Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV this week. "If they want to make the case for the popular election of presidents and a Constitutional amendment, they should make the case.

They are all three completely different categories of things.

Democracy - government is run by a vote of the people.
Can be contrasted with autocracy or oligarchy where government is run by the decisions of one person or a small group of people.
Republic - One larger state consisting of smaller autonomous states. In contrast with Confederation, Kingdom, Caliphate. North Korea is also a republic.
Constitution - A written document which lays out the fundamental principals and structure of a government. North Korea also has a constitution.

We live in a Republic which has a Constitution and uses Democratic means to elect our representatives. Only one of those things is different than North Korea.

There is nothing special what so ever about being a "Republic" it does not make a nation better. The power given to the government which is subject to the "democratic" vote of the people can be different in every "Democracy". The limiting factors are the specifics laid out in the constitution. This is what made our Constitution so special. It was nearly perfectly devised. The main purpose of the U.S. Constitution was to limit the accumulation of power by the government and any individuals or factions that may participate in the government. It set out to severely limit what was subject to the "democratic" will of the people. It worked for a while.

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