Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
The article that I have linked below has a lot of good information for those who like to debate the validity of the EC.
"The Electoral College was created for two reasons. The first purpose was to create a buffer between population and the selection of a President. The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states.
The first reason that the founders created the Electoral College is hard to understand today." ... Read more below:
https://www.historycentral.com/elect...collgewhy.html
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The Truth Does Not Need To Be Supported With Censorship.
Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
It was designed to placate the slave states so they would enter the union. It is known.http://time.com/4558510/electoral-co...story-slavery/ In the beginning they allowed 5 slaves to = 3 votes. that was also a way to give more power to the slave states but not provide equality to blacks. The Repubs still don't want to let blacks vote.
MAGA MAN (10-20-2018), PostmodernProphet (10-20-2018)
stoned (10-22-2018)
Are leftists incapable of understanding the 3/5 Compromise, or do you really think you can capitalize by lying about it? The south wanted to count every single slave as a whole person for the purposes of congressional apportionment. The north argued that they shouldn't be counted at all. In order to placate the south, the 3/5 compromise was offered.
It's kind of like how the south wanted only proportional representation, but the north wanted equal representation, so the Connecticut delegation offered the compromise to have both. Anyway, true to form, you lying leftists have been claiming that the Senate was set-up to benefit slave states.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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MAGA MAN (10-20-2018), Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
It's actually very easy to understand, to cockblock the unsubstantial people from political representation. They were after the illusion of democratic representation sans actual democratic representation.
—John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (1787)“[A social division exists] between the rich and the poor, the laborious and the idle, the learned and the ignorant. … Nothing, but force, and power and strength can restrain [the latter].”
Same reason senators were appointed by the aristocracy.
stoned (10-22-2018)
If it were the liberals who were benefiting from the composition of the Electoral College...
...all the assholes on the right would be arguing to end it.
Their Dear Leader thinks the Electoral College favors the Democrats.
Why not change the Electoral College?
I wonder how many conservative...or Republican votes that would get?
MAGA MAN (10-20-2018)
stoned (10-22-2018)
I like this part of the article:
They didn't know how back then that today's media would be manipulating the citizenry the way it does when it manipulates the news, but they did indeed know that attempts to manipulate the citizenry were a threat."Hamilton and the other founders believed that the electors would be able to insure that only a qualified person becomes President. They believed that with the Electoral College no one would be able to manipulate the citizenry. It would act as check on an electorate that might be duped. "
The Truth Does Not Need To Be Supported With Censorship.
Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
countryboy (10-21-2018), Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
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Truth Detector (10-22-2018)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
countryboy (10-21-2018)
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