The Framers Of The Constitution

The Electoral College: a system that the U.S. has used over the years to choose representatives and is a compromise between election by a vote. The Electoral College should not be abolished for three reasons. These reasons are: The system helps candidates who struggle with winning the Popular Vote; with Electoral Votes, it gives the little states enough power and votes, and if we abolish The Electoral College, we weaken the Political Two-Party-System. And if not weakened, then destroyed. These reasons will show that the Electoral College should not be abolished, and should be kept.

Your vote should mainly matter! Yes, the electoral college should be abolished. The delegates did not believe the president should be chosen by a direct population vote (of the people). They didn’t trust voters would have enough information to make a good choice. The Electoral College is where the president and vice president are chosen indirectly. This system is where all states and the District of Columbia get one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Also, each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate. Another way this system works is by winner-take all method. The winner-take all method is where whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins the state electoral votes. Lastly a candidate must receive a majority (one more than a half) of the electoral votes to be declared president. That is how everything goes in the electoral college. The electoral college should be abolished because 12 states and D.C. total have double the amount of electoral votes but less people than Illinois. Also, the winner of the 1876 presidential election isn’t what people wanted, it was based on the number of electoral votes. Another reason the electoral college should be abolished is that the states with the same representatives dont have the same number of voters. All these issues that continue to happen, need to be resolved by getting rid of this system.

One of the greatest accomplishments in the history of the United States was the creation of the Constitution. It was created by the Framers who included many important and specific rules to make sure that the government would be able to sustain itself. The Idea of the Electoral College was first introduced in this constitution as a way to make sure that there was a buffer between the population and the selection of a President. They did not want a dictatorship to arise due to a manipulative candidate. In recent history, the Electoral College has been a very controversial topic. Many people do not agree with it and believe that it should be abolished due to varying factors such as the unequal distribution of votes per state. When the Framers first created the Electoral College, I believe that there hopes of what it would become have not been met and that they would not be pleased with it in today's government.

The electoral college is a system that was put in place by the framers of the constitution for many reasons. The main reason the electoral college is that the framers did not fully trust democracy for they believed that people were not educated enough to vote. After reading an article from Business Insider called The Electoral College Is Brilliant, And We Would Be Insane To Abolish It by Walter Hickey, I agree that the electoral college is necessary for our presidential elections. According to the article the electoral college is good because it keeps errors local, is a testament to a candidate's desire to win, and most importantly, forces majority. In the article opposing the Electoral College I found many of the arguments to be invalid or full of what ifs or buts, and that is why I do not have any reason to believe the electoral college is good.

The Electoral College system was created in the constitution by the Founding Fathers. This system forms the beginning of the United States' national elections and is therefore, considered to be important to this country's history. It is made up of 538 members and a candidate must receive a majority of 270 electoral votes to win the election. Electors usually get selected to one of the presidential candidates running. When people go to the ballot on voting day and pick their favorite candidate, they are really choosing the electors for their state and then the electors are the ones that vote for the president. The Electoral College should be revised or abolished because it is both undemocratic, is not beneficial to the nation, and may weaken the validity of elections and the elected President.

    One reason the Electoral College should be abolished is that if someone was to win the popular vote but, the other candidate won the Electoral vote then, they would most likely win the election.

Should the Electoral College be preserved or replaced? A question monopolizing all of us. The Electoral College has been around 1788 and American democracy would be far stronger without it. This form of representation is old, and on behalf of the U.S., we need an improved portrayal of the citizens that accounts for our updated uses of technology. The Electoral College underrepresents states and allows some votes to count more than others. Rather than providing a true democracy we elect “Electors” to vote in our favor. This is unreliable and doesn’t account for those who don’t vote.to Electoral College The Electoral College was created by “Framers” also known as our Founding Fathers. This system is made up of 538 electors, or delegates, who

The government should not get rid of this process because it gives power to the states and not just two states with the biggest population. It is important that we keep this electoral college because this keeps the government and the states with a checks and balance system. In the electoral college a person cannot be a member of congress and be on the electoral committee of your state. Once on the electoral committee the members are responsible for casting a vote for the candidate that the state voted for.

A very controversial topic is whether the electoral college of the United States of America should be dissolved. The recent 2016 presidential election has intensified the debate. The electoral college is an old system that was created out of a fear of the country being subject to mob rule. The founding fathers were wrong. America is not a true democracy if the electoral college still exists. It should be removed because it makes the voices of citizens meaningless.

I agree with that the Electoral College System should be done with. My reasoning for this is in any presidential election, the Electoral College is above the votes of the people of the United States of America. All that a candidate needs when they run for an election is 270 out of the 538 votes in the Electoral College to win the presidency. The Electoral College System over runs the election. It pushes aside the votes of the people and consequently decides who is going to be president for themselves. They say that the American people have a choice in who becomes their president, but it only takes 270 out of 538 of the Electoral College to choose the next president of the United States of America. If the Electoral College chooses who is going to be the next president then what is the reason for the American people to vote? There is

Back in the 1700s, there was at least some point to the usage of the Electoral College. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, it was said that the Founding Fathers decided to base the votes off of each state’s population, but the issue about this is that a small amount of states would give three votes to the Electoral College (Yetter), which would explain why they made votes more worthy in smaller states than larger states. This is something that was causing the decline of the need for the Electoral College. What has happened to the Electoral College in the 1700s was not even relevant to what is happening to it right now in our society; therefore the Electoral College is not as useful as it was before and should be abolished in favor of the popular

Many people ask themselves this question: should the electoral system be abolished? Some answers are yes, others are no, others maybe don’t know. I think that Electoral College should not be abolished but instead it should be reformed. First of all let’s define what the Electoral College is and how it works. Many do not believe that voters are not well informed about the candidates and cannot make good elections, which is why the Electoral College was seen as a way to help with this issue. “The Electoral College, is the institution (whose members are selected by whatever means the state legislature chooses) that is responsible for selecting the president of the United States.” (Bond, pg. G-4) The

Electoral College     Should we abolish or keep the electoral college? The electoral college is the finale of voting to choose presidency. The popular vote helps decide how many electors in each state can vote. Once the votes in each state are counted for, the candidate who won the majority of votes for that particular state, gets to choose which group of electors are allowed to actually vote for president. Disregarding the population, each state is given a minimum of three electoral votes.

Our country runs with freedom and democracy. Other countries are not as fortunate as us to have this right as a citizen. Some people in our country take our freedom for granite to exercise that right. In Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, relates with the topic of the Electoral College. Today, some are very overwhelmed what the Electoral College has brought to our nation. Some people believe that this section of the Constitution should be abolished. However, the reasoning for having this is because the founding fathers did not trust the people. They thought we were all uninformed of our domestic policies as a nation. Consequently, this deems to be universal over Two-Hundred years later. Abolishing the Electoral College

When the Electoral College was put in place as part of the voting process it seemed a good idea. “Our framers distrusted democracy and saw the Electoral College as a deliberative body able to correct bad choices made by the people.” (Anderson 519). Times have changed and today’s society is a lot different that it was when George Washington was President. It’s about time that the U.S eliminates the Electoral College and makes America more of a democracy by making the popular vote the deciding factor in electing the president.