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Originally Posted by Jaxian  What reason do you have to hold this belief?
As I had explained earlier, the Federalist Papers, written by the authors of the Constitution, clearly state that the Electoral College was created so that the men most informed, most qualified, and most able to deliberate be the ones who decide the president. This is a very different reason from the one you have stated. | Even though you have educated elctoral college members voting it doesn't mean that the general public doesn't vote. This is where the slave vote comes into play. The southern states got more electoral votes because of the slave owners in the south.
That is the reason I feel that the electoral college was created. Slaves. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence. |