Electoral College Debate Introduction As said by Juan Williams, a journalist for FOX News, “In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.” Although forty-five U.S. presidents have been elected and this scenario has
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Alexander Hamilton’s Electoral College and the Modern Election Colin Campbell Prof. R Hurl TA: Matthew Lesch Tutorial: Thursday, 4:00 PM, UC 67) U. S. Government and Politics (POL 208 Y1Y) 1 November 2012 Alexander Hamilton’s Electoral College and the Modern Election When American's leaders assembled in Philadelphia in 1787, they originally had the goal of solving issues that had arisen from the Articles of Confederation, which had governed the young nation since separating from Britain
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! ! The United States Electoral College system and its contemporary challenge ! Is the Electoral College process still relevant today ? ! For some of us - European people that are accustomed to the universal suffrage - the Electoral College process and its outcome may seem a bit surprising. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, for example, more Americans voted for Gore, but Bush actually won the presidency because he was awarded the majority of Electoral College votes. It's a political upset
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The Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote when choosing the president. The standard way of explaining the Electoral College would be a process that “consists of the selection and the meeting of electors” (Source 1: What is the Electoral College) this is then where the president and the vice president are voted for and the counts of the presidential electoral votes are taken place Basics of the Electoral College are the entitled allotment of electors a state has equals the
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Electoral College Robert Dahl argues in chapter 4 of his book “How Democratic Is the American Constitution?” that the electoral college was misunderstood by the Framers. The standard view of the electoral college is that the Framers wanted to remove the choice of the President from the hands of popular majorities and to place responsibility in the hands of a select body of wise, outstanding, and virtuous citizens. Dahl points out that this view comes directly from the Federalist No. 68. But Dahl
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To reform the U.S. electoral system, the government should eliminate the Electoral College and allow the citizens to choose the president in order to make the system more democratic. The function of the Electoral College is described in Article II Section 2 of the constitution, the constitution “does not provide that all US citizens may vote for presidential electors. Rather, it provides only that the electors shall be appointed as the state legislatures direct. Once a state determines that electors
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Electoral College The American people are led to believe that they decide who gets to be president but really the choice is made for them. The choice of a few can overshadow the choice of millions, but the illusion of each vote counts still rings loudly. The Electoral College has the only votes that actually will decide the President of the United States. The Electoral College is not really a college or a physical place but it is a procedure. This is a procedure that takes place every four years
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Caden Jenkins English 2010 February 21, 2016 Annotated Bibliography Berns, Walter. “Should The Current Electoral College Be Preserved?” Congressional Digest, 80. (2001): pg.16. EBSCOhost. Web. 21 February 2016. From being one of my databases I thought that it would be a good idea to have both sides of the argument, so that is why I selected to put another pro of the electoral college. The reason for this is to simply receive more credibility from my audience that I have looked at all sides of
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Electoral College YOUR NAME HERE HIS/301 MONTH DAY, YEAR INSTRUCTOR NAME HERE Electoral College The president of the United States of America is elected by secret ballot under first-past-the-post, each constituent of a district- within a state, votes for the (usually) two Candidates standing for either the Republican or Democratic Party. The candidates win the popular vote in each state, and that states Electoral College votes accordingly. A Candidate that receives the most votes
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Changing the Voting System in America In the United States of America, the Electoral College system is used to elect the President. This system was created to make voting a quicker and easier process when the country was established. Horseback was the quickest way to transport votes at the time and to speed up the process of voting, the founders created the electoral college system. To eliminate the delay of travel, the electors who represent each state could be updated more quickly. Today we
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