Flaws In America Research Paper
The United States of America recently had a presidential election. If you’re reading this statistically you are not happy about the results because the candidate you voted for did not win. The candidate that won the majority of popular votes lost the election. The number of Americans that voted for Hillary Clinton is larger than the number of Americans that voted for Donald Trump. Trump won the most number of electoral college votes, but lost the popular vote. He did not win because the majority of Americans voted for him. He won because the majority of electorates voted for him. This has caused people to feel cheated. Perhaps the system is rigged, and the electoral college are the ones that rigged it. In the interest of free and fair elections I would like to consider and outline the different ways United States federal elections and federal government could be improved upon. There are a number of different ways in which
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The three branches of government provide an important system of checks and balances, but these branches are flawed. The current Congress has used it's power as the legislative branch against the executive branch, to obstruct President Barack Obama's appointment to the judicial branch, the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the POTUS and approved by Congress. Since US Supreme Court justices serve without term limits the Supreme Court can stay controlled by one political party election cycle after election cycle. The simplest solution to increase bipartisanship and improve upon representation within the US Supreme Court, with as little change as possible, is not to impose term limits for appointed justices, or to require justices to be elected by voters, but by requiring that close to half of the appointed justices be made up of members of the opposing party. This means out of the nine justices, four must be justices from the opposing
The three branches of government provide an important system of checks and balances, but these branches are flawed. The current Congress has used it's power as the legislative branch against the executive branch, to obstruct President Barack Obama's appointment to the judicial branch, the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the POTUS and approved by Congress. Since US Supreme Court justices serve without term limits the Supreme Court can stay controlled by one political party election cycle after election cycle. The simplest solution to increase bipartisanship and improve upon representation within the US Supreme Court, with as little change as possible, is not to impose term limits for appointed justices, or to require justices to be elected by voters, but by requiring that close to half of the appointed justices be made up of members of the opposing party. This means out of the nine justices, four must be justices from the opposing