State of the US Electorate

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by razark

Because the unwashed masses don't really deserve the right to choose their leaders. They wouldn't be able to select the right person. The uneducated, poor, non-landholding, non-white, non-males don't actually count. Take that up with the guys that wrote the Constitution.

The guys who wrote the Constitution didn't see it that way at all. In their eyes a Representative represented the people of his district, and was elected by them. A Senator represented the state itself, and was elected by the State Legislature. The President represented the people and the states, and his function was mainly limited to representing us all to outsiders, so Foreign Policy was his main job. The Electoral College was meant to keep him from owing favors to any one faction.

It's an outdated concept, and needs to be removed.

You may be right there.

[razark]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The guys who wrote the Constitution didn't see it that way at all.

Well, it's not my fault that history doesn't conform to the way I remember it.

I really do need to go a re-learn that stuff. It's been a long time since I studied early American history, and all I've got to go on if half-remembered bits and pieces picked up along the way. It's my country, I should know a lot more about how it was founded than I do.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You may be right there.

That's what I've been trying to tell people for years!

[August]

Originally Posted by razark

That's what I've been trying to tell people for years!

It may be updated but why does it need to be removed?