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To: martinidon; kabar
[The "National Popular Vote" bill] will take effect when enacted by states with 105 more electoral votes.

"Will take effect"? Did Congress pass this?

I can not believe the conservative AZ house passed this law. I need to research this.

Notice how several Republican-controlled state legislatures have approved this bill. 105 Electoral votes doesn't seem like much to overcome. Does that somehow trigger a federal law?

There are serious reasons for small states to prefer the electoral college. Consider, for instance, the federal land and other resources which exists within various states.

Suddenly, NY and CA would effectively be put in a position to totally dominate federal policy with respect to land within the other 48 states, by virtue of practically controlling who can be elected President.

America is a federal Republic of sovereign states. We don't need excessive democracy. It's a harbinger of Tyranny. It's time to dispense with the notion that pure democracy should be some kind of goal to be aspired to. What matters are the rights of the Individuals, and, by logical extension, States, and no Mob will ever have the right to to usurp those tandem pillars of American Freedom.

States' rights are not only a quaint tradition: they're real, and Liberty is designed to flow from the individual upward, not the top down.

Thus, we should all be educated enough to resist such erosion of a properly conceived and well-balanced system.

People would to well to read the Federalist Papers...

58 posted on 12/23/2016 1:24:12 PM PST by sargon (The Revolution is ON! Support President-elect Trump!)
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To: sargon
"Will take effect"? Did Congress pass this?

Congress doesn't have to pass it. Under the Constitution, the states can have compacts. The states also determine how they will allocate their electoral votes.

Thus, we should all be educated enough to resist such erosion of a properly conceived and well-balanced system. People would to well to read the Federalist Papers...

If only that were the case. Most people are ignorant when it comes to our history and the Constitution. The direct election of the President has great appeal to the uninformed along with the Dem party, which is changing the composition of the electorate thru mass immigration.

95 posted on 12/23/2016 2:49:51 PM PST by kabar
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