electoral college

ELECTORAL COLLEGE : The reason why we use the electoral college in the U.S. is to decide who is going to be the next president. The presidency is not always won by popular vote. The founding fathers opted for an electoral college , because they wanted the president to be chosen by those who were well informed ,and qualified enough to have the ability to chose a president. The main argument against the electoral college is that the presidency should be won by popular vote alone. It shouldn’t be that one candidate could win the popular vote, and still lose the election. One of the pros of the electoral college is that the system persuades candidates to promote themselves in small and big cities of the battle states. Another pro of the system is if a recount was needed it could often be centered to the specific state (s) . For example in 2000 a recount was proposed in the state of Florida between Al gore and George w. Bush, if not for the electoral college the recount may have had to take place in the nation. One of the cons of the electoral college is that it has a major possibility of not representing the popular opinion , by that I mean the voting system has the hazard of a “faithless” elector a person who is pledged to vote for a specific party s candidate but votes for an other . The electoral college has preformed its function for over 200 years by ensuring that the president of the U.S. has both sufficient poplar support to govern and his support is sufficiently distributed throughout the country to enable him to govern effectively. The fact that the electoral college was originally designed to solve one set of problems but today serves to solve an entirely different set of problems is a tribute to the genius of the Founding Fathers .
COMMITTEE SYSTEM : The House organization is a part of the committee system, where the members are divided into special expertise groups to hold hearings, prepare bills for the entire House, and regulating House procedure. The committee system is a way to divide up the legislative labor. There are approximately 20 permanent committees that organize major policy areas, each having staffs, budgets, and subcommittees. One of the pros of having an appropriate committee is that they get the job done right off the bat and are also more productive because they are in there own special group. More groups equals more access points, An other good reason why we need a committee system is because we have so many legislature that need to be looked at , and having specialized groups like for example homeland security the committee can focus on the problem that they have experience with and its the most efficient way to fix the problem. A major disadvantage of a committee in some situations, where one member or a small group is way more powerful than others, some people may impose their decision on the committee. In this way the more powerful members gain power greater than the intended limits. This power is not backed by matching responsibility. The committees are also known to cause excessive delays in decision making and in taking action towards certain bills. Special groups also target special committees and that leads to careerism and corruptions and it also leads to no new ideas and no new blood comes into the system.
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