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Originally Posted by hevusa Without the electoral college they wouldn't have been able to account for the slave population in the south. If 5 slaves counted for 3 actual votes, who would get to vote with those 3 extra votes without the electoral college?
The electoral college was formed out of racism. Now it is just a manner manipulate the popular vote. | The north was very opposed to slavery. Would northerners like Hamilton and Madison have made themselves the primary supporters and authors of the Constitution if it was designed to preserve slavery and make the votes of slaveholding states worth more than the votes of non-slaveholding states?
And why would they have decided that individuals must be elected to a college, just to make the votes of slaveholding states count for more? Why not just have states vote, and the value of each state's vote is based on the number of citizens and slaves in that state? That seems both the most obvious and simple solution. But that's not what they did. They said that each state would elect individual college members, and those college members would use their own intelligence and their own reasoning ability to decide which candidate to vote for.
And what is your response to the Federalist Papers? The Federalist Papers were written by the authors of the Constitution in an effort to explain why each part of the Constitution is a good thing. These Papers agree with what I've said, and make no mention of what you said. So are you suggesting that Madison and Hamilton were lying, and they really wanted slavery to continue forever? Do you think they used the Federalist Papers to deceive people? How do you explain this?
I know what you think the electoral college is for. But how do you justify that belief? -Jaxian
Last edited by Jaxian; 08-16-2006 at 03:50 PM.
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