The Relationship Between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
- March 21, 2017
District voting for presidential electors in [key swing] states would . . . isolate corruption to particular electoral districts;
READ MOREI’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I know a diversion when I see one.
READ MOREThe [Electoral College] has protected us against highly fractured results and purely regional candidates in almost every election since 1824.
READ MOREIf we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
READ MORE“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
READ MORE“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
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