Political Science 100 The Electoral College The Constitution of the United States should be amended to abolish the Electoral College so the people of the United States can elect the President as a true democracy dictates. The system of the Electoral College has become obsolete in this day and age. The Electoral College was founded just as many other laws were established in the beginning, which have long been abolished or amended such as slavery. “The Electoral College system made sense back then
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 The key flaw of this out-of-date system, is allowing a candidate to win the election without securing the popular vote.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
Economy: Compare the economies of the New South and the Old South. What did they produce? With whom did they trade? Did they have manufacturing or industry? What types? What replaced slave labor? Explain. (Old South – see Chapter 11; New South – see pages 419-421) New South - i)Leaders in post-Reconstruction south wanted to develop industrial economy, New South of industry, progress, thrift. New South included growth of textile manufacturing b/c of water power, cheap labor, low taxes. Tobacco-processing