that make up the Electoral College. “Article II‚ section I‚ clause 2 provides that no Senator or Representative or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed as Elector.” In the beginning‚ the 14th Amendment provided that any state officials who had engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States or had given comfort and aid to the enemies of the United States would not be able to serve as an Elector in the Electoral College. This related
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The Founding Fathers wanted to distinguish the newly formed United States from a pure democracy. The Framers defined democracy as government decisions made directly by the people. They decided to use a republic form of government because it promised wiser government. This type of government would allow decisions to be made by representatives elected by people. The one issue styled under this republican representation was the process on how to choose a president. This process has been the source
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Why the Electoral College should not be preserved? The Constitutional Convention of 1787 gave birth to the system of the Electoral College. Electoral College system can be described as a system in which voters vote for electors on election day‚ who then cast their vote for candidate in their respective party. Our Founding Fathers described this system in Article II‚ section 1 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution‚ electors per state are equal to the number of seats each state holds
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In recent times‚ social media has been flooding with the idea that government agencies such as the police force‚ are after poor minority men. Although the purpose of these agencies is to keep the peace and abolish crime‚ these poor minority men are thrown behind bars for an arrest far greater than what they have committed. The number and type of men thrown into prison indicate that there is a racial inequality and corruption within the penal system. Prison population increased dramatically in the
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The Electoral College‚ established by the Founding Fathers in the United States Constitution‚ acts as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens (“Electoral College History”). When forming the electoral college‚ delegates rejected the idea of a popular vote due to the lack of faith that the people would make a wise choice when voting for leaders. However‚ in modern times education is more readily
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Since 1997 with the labour government in charge‚ the UK have adopted various electoral systems. However‚ there are a number of problems with each systems and some systems are more proportional than others‚ for example the List System has a higher degree of proportional representation than the First Past The Post system which is used in UK general elections. In spite of this‚ there are good systems in Northern Ireland‚ like AMS which is very proportional and provides a simple outcome. The First
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ELECTORAL REFORMS IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES BEFORE THE ELECTION COMMISSION SYNOPSIS 1) Introduction 2) Electoral Reforms in India 3) Elections in India 4) Free and fair elections 5) Criminalization in Electoral System: 6) Issues and challenges before the Election Commission 7) Current Situation ABSTRACT In this essay‚ we have a given a brief view about elections and politics inheriting criminalization. The failure of the Legislature to deliberately think over
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called the electoral college. The electoral college (EC) was founded in 1787. The founding fathers set up the system so that the president is chosen indirectly. This was done so that "popular passion‚" wouldn ’t factor in as much. Basically they didn ’t want presidential campaigns to become purely advertisement campaigns. (third party times) But there are a few serious flaws in the electoral college that need to be dealt with. For example‚ the well known Democratic motto "one man‚ one vote‚" (which
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as the founding fathers‚ met in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania to form a new system of government. Creating a functioning and fair way to elect public officials proved to be a difficult task for the founding fathers. They attempted to find a way to balance the power between individual states and the national government. This was eventually laid out in Article II‚ Section 1 of the Constitution‚ which made the Electoral College the form voting system the United States uses to elect the President and Vice
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is‚ we really don’t have a say so. We‚ in reality‚ just vote for State Electors who then hold the electoral vote to vote for the next president. This is an unjust way to do this in a “democratic” country. I do not believe the electoral college is an equitable way to elect the President of United States. Alexander Hamilton‚ one of the Founding Fathers of United States‚ had agreed with the electoral college. He says‚ “It was equally desirable‚ that the immediate election should be made by men most
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