And out come the butthurt sour grapes.
You want a fishing pole?
Its not a virtue to make unproven accusations so you can feel better about yourself and get adulation from peers.
Their votes will matter even less under a popular vote Presidential system.
Now this is just getting sad, I almost feel sorry for you.
obviously its a republican democracy....
...these concepts are way way over your liberal head. Yes we have had lynch mobs but the whole country has not turned into a lib Nazi communist monarchist lynch because our genius Founders tried to make centralized power ie liberalism illegal. Notice the way a liberal makes a conservative free like a kindergarten teacher?
...dear, democracy is, strictly speaking, when the people control everything. When they have representatives courts agencies etc all making decisions too you have a modified democracy, a republican democracy, a constitutional democracy or a representative democracy. Does the liberal grasp it now?
...in the original draft of the Declaration, Jefferson condemned King George III of forcing the African slave trade on the American colonies...
...In his Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)...
That's the point! Its to protect the smaller states.
...to prevent larger population states from dominating all aspects of politics in the US. Its the reason why the Senate exists and its the reason why the Electoral College is set up the way it is: as a compromise between large and small states. You think its a bug, its not, its a feature....
From what ?
by reducing the political power of voters in large states.
Just what do you think larger population states will impose on the smaller population states ?
That is just, plain, BS. If you had any integrity, you would not say such things.
How is a vote "worth less" if it is counted the same as every other?
You don't seem to understand, the Constitution wouldn't have been ratified without it. It was a compromise to get it passed, to ensure the voices of smaller states would still be heard.
How so? Evidence? Argument? Examples? Or, is this just the typical idiocy of ideological tribalism?
Your silly personal slur aside - can you present even one report that ANY of the electors meetings did what Hamilton said they would do and protect us from foreign nations installing a creature of their own in the Presidency? Let us see it.
Then why is that your main mode of argumentation?
And it was ratified. Over 230 years ago. So that threat is long ago gone with the wind and is no longer a consideration.
The words of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson seem apt here
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
We no longer need mathematical affirmative for smaller states as appeasement to stay within the nation.
LOL your bar of evidence is legislative meetings that there is no way I could know anything about? Hard pass. Hamilton put it in there over English interference. Figure it out.
These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?
Then change the Constitution. This ineffectual, mendacious nonsense makes no difference. Act.
Their votes will matter even less under a popular vote Presidential system.
If the people of California are in step with the majority of Americans and vote together, why shouldn't the people of California be considered equally with the rest of their voting compatriots?
well, we don't really want regions like California running the country. We want democratic authority spread out across the entire country. We want diversity. Especially now when the sophisticated people on the coasts tend to vote socialism even after socialism just killed 120 million.
well, we don't really want regions like California running the country. We want democratic authority spread out across the entire country. We want diversity. Especially now when the sophisticated people on the coasts tend to vote socialism even after socialism just killed 120 million.
Well, that just takes the cake. I have a hard time wondering how some folks got out of college given the reasoning abilities of folks. We are done.
Perhaps I may have mentioned once or twice that this will eventually happen when Republicans are bit in the ass by the Electoral College after winning the popular vote and they give up their current stance and return to supporting the popular vote like many Republicans used to favor.
Perhaps you have heard of this institution we have that reports on such thing - it is called THE PRESS?
Where does it say ENGLISH INTERFERENCE? It does not say that. Here is what Hamilton does say
Unless you have been channelling Hamilton and we do not know about it, you are wrong.
I see. You want my tax money but not my vote. You want my contribution to our nation in every way but my vote. I got it. You are an elite voter, I am not. In fact, your vote is so important that we give it more power then my vote. Why? Because you are a real Murican, a man who represents the real Murica, the salt of the earth, the lily white underbelly of all that is good and proper and righteous. You are Mayberry RFD, we are Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I get it, you are truly a special person. Our nation needs you to make decisions, not me or my fellow Californians. Just let us create the worlds entertainment, the technology, the food, the next new paradigm shift but do not, under any circumstances, let us have the same voting power as you. Why? Because you are special.
If I had any integrity? You rephrase this nonsense and I MIGHT reply to you. Mind you damn manners.
Nevermind, I have given up expecting either integrity or sense from your posts. Don't expect any further responses. Be well, and mind the door.
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