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    Should the Electoral College be Abolished? What do you think the founding fathers thought about our citizens as voters? Shortly after the country’s government was formed, framers of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 did not believe that the People should directly decide who becomes the president of the United States. They made this decision because during 1787, the government was dealing with opinions from small and large states, and slave and free states. Now, though, all of the states have

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    The Electoral College Then, Now, and Tomorrow The Electoral College system has been in place for over 200 years and Americans are still not sure how it works or if it is the best system. Many Americans feel they go to the polls every year and vote for the president, and in the long run they are in control of the fate of our executive branch. With the 1992 election it was clear that many people had little understanding for how a president is chosen; the 1992 election came close to having no

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    The Electoral College Should Be Revised As citizens of the United State of America, one of our most important rights is that of which to vote. By voting, the general population has a say in who its leaders are. Votes for local, state, and even federal representatives directly reflect who the constituents want in office. However, America’s highest office is not elected by a vote of the people. Instead we use a confusing and outdated system called the Electoral College. Our president is not elected

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    be in office and in charge of our country. That is why it is hard for people to hear that most people’s votes do not actually do anything. The Electoral College decides the candidate for us without the public even knowing. That is why the Electoral College needs to be fixed or disbanded. The Electoral College should be disbanded or fixed because this system is going against the idea of democracy. We as Americans believe that we are voting for a candidate to become the president every four years but

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    However, the Electoral College contradicts these American values. The Electoral College was a system created by the Framers of the Constitution in 1787, and they believed that the people were not educated enough to choose their president by themselves so they created an indirect democracy. In this system, all states get one electoral vote for each of their senators and representatives. Each state has two senators and the house of representatives gets votes based on their population. The system also works

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    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

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    Every time there is an election in the United States, the debate of Electoral College always heats up, and suddenly everybody seems to know about or at least they are interested in learning about it. The Electoral College is firmly established under the United States Constitution to elect the president and the vice president of the United States indirectly. A slate of “electors” are chosen from each state, and they are the ones responsible for voting for president in the general elections depending

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    Professor Trokkos PLS 201 04 December 2016 Electoral College With every Presidential election, the United States’ electoral college takes place. The electoral college has been around for about 200 years and it is still going strong with its intended purpose. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Democracy is defined as a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically

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    Gore had won the popular vote but George W. Bush had won the Electoral Vote. In 2012, Al Gore had gone public with his loss and had suggested that the United States eliminate the use of the Electoral College. He brought up both pros and cons of the system but overall he was not distressed about the situation. As complex as the Electoral College is, there are many pros and cons of the system. In order to understand the Electoral College, you must understand the history of it. The Founding Fathers

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    Some choose to argue for keeping the electoral college. One reason they do this is because it was part of the Constitution’s framers’ plan, “Historically, federalism [the combination of a central government with some authority given to state and local governments] is central to our grand constitutional effort to constrain power” (Document C). One can assume that the framers put the electoral college system in place to prevent one form of government from becoming too powerful. After much consideration

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