The Electoral College was established in 1787 as a compromise between having Congress select the next President of the United States‚ and having a direct democracy in which the popular vote selected the next President. The system has worked for over 200 years‚ so why change it now? Proponents for the Electoral College to remain the same argue that the Electoral College contributes to the cohesiveness of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president‚ enhances
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II 10 October 2006 Popular Culture Should Be A Popular Course Dear Chair of the Education Department‚ Popular culture should be a course that is offered on Clarion campus for everyone. If popular culture is taught correctly‚ a course on popular culture can provide a very educational outlook on wide variety of important topics such as race and ethnicity or politics(Rise and Fall). Popular culture is very interesting‚ in that it is what is popular to people‚ and should be a class that is taught
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Unit Paper In today’s politics the Political Parties‚ Voters‚ The Electoral Process and Mass Media are all connected to one another. An example for this is the incoming elections in the United States. There are political parties that have their own ideas on how to change the government for the better of the citizens. Political parties are defined as an organized group of people with the same political aims and opinions‚ who seeks to change the public policy by having their candidates elected
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not voting at all. American citizens should not be required to vote because democracy thrives on participation of its people and if citizens are being forced to vote then their opinions are not going to be an accurate representation of the honest beliefs and opinions of American citizens as a whole. "Democracy is about freedom" (Text 4‚ line 11) and citizens
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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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and poor students decreases as poorer students have more opportunity. The economy also benefits from the increased pool of highly educated labor. An educated workforce attracts employers and foreign investment. Socially‚ a more educated population should have more choices regarding nutrition‚ jobs and lifestyle. An additional point is that university fees only contribute a small proportion of the university budget. However‚ some people are opposed to free education. First of all‚ through their taxes
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unconstitutional? The Electoral College is‚ and there are many more reasons it is a flawed system of electing our president. As it stands today‚ electoral votes only matter in a few states and some states do not matter in the grand scheme of things. Besides that‚ we have recently had a president elected who did not win the popular vote. This president has made a number of controversial decisions‚ and many call for him to be impeached for a large variety of reasons. The Electoral College elected such a man
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March 29‚ 2012 English 112 (B) Research Paper 1 Should We Pay College Athletes? Should we pay college athletes? That is a big topic in NCAA sports right now. People think that college athletes work hard and that they deserve to get paid. Michael Wilbon is one of these people. At first he was against paying college athletes‚ but now he is all for it. He says that he is interested in seeing the people that make revenue share a little piece of it. Then you have people like a reporter from the
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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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attend college‚ people were too busy trying to make money. So why do we have to pay most of what we earned for our education? A big reason why people in our nation don’t attend college is because they can’t afford it. Having a college degree will relieve financial stress. In addition‚ affordable college tuition will make more impoverished students attend college. Finally‚ more education will equal less violence in the world. College should become more affordable. Paying so much for college can cause
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