Criminals Should Be Punished Or Not Debate criminals deserve to be punished. Most of the people would not hesitate to claim that those who break the law should be punished ans]d put into prison as long as possible in case they continue to endager our lives and property. Also‚ if criminals are not given any punishment they may commit crimes again and again.Crime in general is the worst thing a person can do because it violates the law and it is a violation against the victims.Therefore‚ to protect
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Yes the Electoral college should be taken out of the constitution.The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states‚ for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president
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The electoral college was created by our forefathers for a purpose‚ and the reasons that support their decision still remain. The Americans who dispute the validity of the electoral college have a fundamental misunderstanding of purpose of both electoral college and the President of the United States. The presidential election is performed by electors who vote as the public they represent vote‚ otherwise they are faithless electors‚ a punishable crime in some states. This is where the misunderstanding
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amendment process was divided up by two processes for adopting proposed amendments. The first method was "by a two-thirds vote in both chambers of congress "(Schmidt P.48). This was basically a Super Majority form of voting for proposed amendments to the Constitution. The second method was by "a national convention that is called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of state legislatures""(Schmidt P.48). This method has never been used but basically
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The Flawed Electoral College System The Electoral College undermines the notion that every vote counts in the United States. One candidate loses; the other becomes the leader of the free world. How do we know which candidate is the victor? The Electoral College determines this. Whoever receives the most votes in a particular state wins the electoral votes for that state. The only exceptions are Maine and Nebraska. The size of the population determines the number of electoral votes for that
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in the current elections‚ and giving those with outdated‚ or uninformed views will do nothing but hurt the elections. However‚ the manipulation of uninformed voters by the candidates is very common‚ and candidates practice advertising tactics such as attack ads to alter the view of these uninformed voters. Jeffrey Koch‚ author of “Campaign Advertisements’ Impact
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but instead by 538 members of the electoral college. The electoral college should be replaced by a popular vote system because it will allow all votes to be equal‚ cause candidates to focus on more than just swing states‚ and result in a rightful winner that creates a more united country. The electoral college is a complicated system with a multitude of loopholes and rules that few citizens understand. The Founding Fathers originally chose the electoral college for two reasons: fear that the citizens
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The Electoral College: A Flawed System The electoral college was put in place by our founding fathers in the Constitution. The electoral college is a process that we undergo to elect our president. Every four years‚ American citizens vote for their preferred presidential candidate. Their votes‚ however‚ go to that state’s candidate electors‚ rather than straight towards the presidential election. Electors pledge to vote for the candidate and then vote for president based on the party they previously
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The Electoral college system is in need of reform for the following three reasons. First‚ it creates the potential of having faithless electors. During an election electors may pledge their vote one way that corresponds with the party‚ and then cast their vote in the opposite way. Second‚ it gives the candidate an opportunity to win the election without receiving the popular vote. The candidate may have received the popular vote by gaining more states‚ but looses states that have a large amount of
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Is the Electoral College a Democratic Institution? Ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787 there has been constant debate as to whether or not our system of voting‚ the Electoral College‚ is a democratic institution. After all‚ how can an electoral system that grants the power of the presidency to the candidate who did not win the popular vote claim to be truly democratic. This debate over whether or not we should dispense of the Electoral College in favor of a system based on a purely
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