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re: The main reason I love Trump more today than a few weeks ago
Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:13 pm to TeLeFaWx
Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:13 pm to TeLeFaWx
In truth the electoral college really wasn't about big state vs little state, but moreso about keeping rich white male property owners elected. They believed this was nevessary to keep poor non-landowner from making the mistake of electing someone not in the good ole boy club. You are taught one thing throughout highschool then you realize your history teacher lied to you when you get to college.
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:24 pm to karralum
Bingo.
Although I wasn't going to go there.
Although I wasn't going to go there.
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As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” The point of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”
This post was edited on 2/22/17 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:46 pm to karralum
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In truth the electoral college really wasn't about big state vs little state, but moreso about keeping rich white male property owners elected. They believed this was nevessary to keep poor non-landowner from making the mistake of electing someone not in the good ole boy club. You are taught one thing throughout highschool then you realize your history teacher lied to you when you get to college.
I mean the Founders never imagined a world with the Internet where people would be capable of informing themselves on tons of issues. So it's whatever.
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