The Electoral College is an integral part of the current election process of the United States. Created during the Constitutional Convention of 1787‚ the establishment of Electors was developed through debate of the Virginia Plan which proposed that Congress should elect the president. However‚ concerns of the president being controlled by Congress and fears over a small group of individuals being able to dictate who would hold office‚ presented the need to change the plan. The Committee of Eleven
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The electoral college should not be abolished. The electoral college is a very important part of the election process. After all‚ it wasn’t established in Article II for no reason. Our very own founding fathers did not like the idea of the general population directly voting for president. They feared that presidents would always come from highly populated states. The electoral college should be kept because it creates a clear winner‚ the electors make more educated decisions‚ and the electoral college
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Electoral College The Electoral College is the process of electing the President or Vice President. It consists of 538 electors in which are chosen to represent each state in the election. This way of electing is very different from other countries and there are quite a few people who have strong opinions on it. The number of each states electors is however many members of congress each state is entitled. This is also based on population. For example‚ Kansas only has six electors compared to
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Is the Electoral College a fair and true system? The Electoral College is the system in place to pick the next president of the United States. The issue with the Electoral College people think it is not fair because majority vote wins a whole state and it cancels like the rest of the votes. Every state has at least two votes. Votes or points are calculated by the amount of representatives the state has. The least amount of votes a state can have is three like Alaska‚ North Dakota‚ South Dakota
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election process‚ weather the United State should maintain the Electoral College is an unbalanced question among politicians and the common people. President elect-Trump was elected by the Electoral College for president. The majority votes for Hillary Clinton was ignored. However‚ is this enough of a purpose to illuminate the Electoral College from the American tradition of the presidential election process? The Electoral College is a genius creations of our four founding fathers. It has been
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must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed‚” said Blanche Lincoln. This statement is especially true today due to the lack of information on why we have the electoral college. On November 8th 2017‚ Donald J. Trump clinched the presidency while not gaining the vote of the majority of the country. This is the second time in the last twenty years‚ and the fifth time in our history. So why should the electoral college stay in place? The electoral college is an effective system
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more power than the others. Eventually‚ the Committee on Postponed matters came up with a solution that the people vote would affect who wins but would not directly elect the president. Nowadays‚ this solution is called the electoral college. In the case of the electoral college‚ the electors vote for the president based on the popular vote in the state. Each political party picks a specific number of electors who have helped with the campaign and then wait for the presidential results from one’s state
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Thomas Caitlyn Ryan English 1550 14 April 2010 The Electoral College: An Education in Unfair Politics To the extent this country has advanced in technology and modern conveniences‚ some laws have not changed since the early days of the establishment of our nation. One area in particular which has in more recent years caused controversy is the function of the Electoral College. The functionality and purpose of the Electoral College has become outdated and should be revamped in order to bring
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The Electoral College has remained a United States voting process since the founding fathers established it into the Constitution. Essentially‚ the Electoral College is the final process of choosing the President of the United States; the process involves having voters from across the country vote for their favored candidate on Election Day. The votes are then organized by state and each state gets Electorates that will represent the people’s votes; the electorates‚ that were chosen to represent
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Ida Campbell The Electoral College: Good or Bad? The United States Electoral College is the group that is responsible for electing the President and the Vice President every four years. Contrary to popular belief‚ the United States is not a “true” democracy in the rawest sense of the word in part because of our electoral college. The mechanics of the United States Electoral College is fairly simple. Each state is assigned a certain number of electors. The number is derived from the total
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