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To: Olog-hai

Winning !


2 posted on 12/06/2016 3:53:08 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

Good.

One thing that really upsets me is these pseudo-intellectual liberals writers, often in major newspapers and broadcast TV saying the Electoral College was designed by the slaves states to give their states leverage over the rest.

The implication, of course, was the evil white slave master Founder’s Constitution is racist.

Bull$h1t!

However, if any one state could be designated as giving us the Electoral College it would be Rhode Island—the smallest, and the most vulnerable to the whims of the citizens of the larger states.

The rifts that lead to the Civil War just weren’t prominent in 1787.

The main issue of the Convention of 1787 was coming up with the best substitute to Great Britain’s tyrannical rule, and how to create the government the Founders were drafting to balance democracy and the mob, with a permanent class of elites. Neither would be allowed to solely rule; there would be a democratic elected House with an Elite Senate chosen by the states. The US Constitution added a key component to then balance the election of National Leader, and that was the Electoral College.

Long may it reign as the law of the land!


23 posted on 12/06/2016 4:27:17 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Col Frank Slade

We keep winning, they keep whining.


44 posted on 12/06/2016 11:12:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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