More than 200 years ago, our founding fathers decided on the Electoral College format as a way of choosing the president. The Electoral College was imperfect then and is imperfect now. The system involves the popular vote of the American people and the votes of 538 Senators and House of Representatives. A candidate must have 270 congressional votes to win the presidential election. Many believe they are voting for the candidate they want as their president. Instead, they are really voting for the
Electoral College Abolished The United States government is one of the most admired and complex in the world. On the contrary, one of the fundamental components that have an extensive impression on the American People and the Election is the Electoral College. Our founding fathers created The Electoral College over two hundred years ago, and it is still in effect today. They feared that having just the Popular Vote would have given too much power to one person. In this paper, we will be discussing
the population, there is a national crisis (The Trouble with the Electoral College). The Electoral college needs to be abolished, there is a system of false democracy in play where those in certain parts of the country some people are born into a larger say, the supporters of it have commented on its inefficiency and how it supposedly helps the nation and there is no assurance that the electoral voters will follow
Constitution, Article 2, Section 1). The Electoral College is a system articulated by the Founding Fathers in the original draft of Constitution about the idea that the higher officials in society should elect the President, not the common people. While the Electoral College has proven to balance power within states, it has also been proven to be flawed for several reasons, it gives less dense population states more say than higher
president is chosen by the Electoral College this is an unfair system in this system people are able to be elected president when they do not win the popular vote and it also isolates small states, this system should be abolished and replaced by selecting a president by popular vote alone. The key flaw of this out-of-date system, is allowing a candidate to win the election without securing the popular vote. It allows for the President to be elected
president in a way that is called the Electoral College system. The Electoral College system is a system where if the candidate running gets the majority of the votes from one state then they will be awarded all the electoral votes for that state. Electoral votes are a set number of votes that a state gives out to the winner of the popular vote of that state. Electoral votes are determined by the amount of congressmen that a state has. For example: California has 55 electoral votes because it has 53 representatives
but through the Electoral College. The Founding Fathers wanted the president to be chosen indirectly, because they worried that the dynamic of mass politics would produce poorly qualified presidents (Tulis, n.d.). Therefore they came up with the Electoral College. This means that the president is not directly chosen by the people, but the people vote for electors that then vote for a candidate (Electing a US President in Plain English, 2008) . However, this can be seen as a flaw, because each elector
America’s First: George Washington Nia Neal American People I Professor Simonelli November 24, 2014 Abstract A name that stands out in U.S history more than many others is George Washington. George Washington was the first president of the United States. He gave his dedication long before presidency by serving his country as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and at the Constitutional Convention. He is a quiet man and always enjoyed spending time on his land in Mount Vernon