The Electoral College When the Founding Fathers congregated and drafted the government of the newly-formed America‚ they wanted a system that would not produce a tyrant‚ but could also produce a strong executive that would lead and consider the people. They created a system in which power could be checked and with hope‚ incorruptible. Distributing political power into the Legislative‚ Judicial‚ and Executive branches‚ and an elaborate process to elect leaders in each‚ the American Constitution was
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election of the presidency in an “Electoral College” form. Meaning‚ certain “electors” are appointed to give their votes for a candidate instead of actually making the popular vote of the citizens count. Some may oppose to it‚ while others want it to stay as how it is. This topic of the electoral college creates controversial discussions because there benefits and non benefits that can apply to the democratic and republican parties.
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The Electoral College is an old and outdated system. Granted it has worked for over 200 years and has elected 44 presidents in the United States‚ but it needs to be changed. At the time the founding fathers believed that this was a good system and that it would truly represent Democracy. However‚ now it actually turns people away from voting because they thing their vote doesn’t count. People become discouraged from voting because if you are a republican living in a highly democratic state‚ essentially
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be a difficult task for the founding fathers. They attempted to find a way to balance the power between individual states and the national government. This was eventually laid out in Article II‚ Section 1 of the Constitution‚ which made the Electoral College the form voting system the United States uses to elect the President and Vice President. There are people in present day society who firmly believe that the constitution is still very relevant today and believe that it gives a fair and equal
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The electoral college has created a political divide in America. In this day and age the last thing America needs is a division among it’s people. With pressing issues like terrorism‚ immigration and equality‚ America’s people need to be united but the issue of the electoral college is one of the things preventing that. Today I will be focusing on the electoral college. One of the many problems with the electoral college is the lack of laws supporting the popular candidate which means the college
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Electoral College Reform Five times in our nation’s history‚ the Electoral College has failed and elected a president that was not the majority vote from the election. The two most recent cases were the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore and the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. During elections‚ there is always a good turnout because people are excited to vote for the next president of the United States‚ but what they do not know is that they do not directly
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In America‚ every four years there is a presidential election that gives everyday Americans the right to vote. The United States is a role model to other countries for giving the concept that all citizens should have equal say in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone a fair right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States
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Framers of the United States created a system called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. In 1787‚ the Electoral College was created by the Framers who were also called the “Founding
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Electoral College The United States of America uses the Electoral College voting mechanism created by the constitution‚ in order to elect the president and vice president. The purpose of the Electoral College is to give all states an equal vote‚ no matter how small or big the state is. The system is not flawless‚ although it has many positives. Some people feel the system is a fail‚ while others feel it is efficient for the American government. The Electoral College is a system made up of 538 electors
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The electoral college is a group of people chosen by every state who officially elects the president and vice president of the united states. The electoral college started with the constitution of the united states‚ it cited how many electors each state is able to have. Since 1964 the has been 538 electors in each presidential election. The number of electors is equivalent to the entire membership of the united states congress‚ 435 representatives‚ 100 senators‚ and 3 electors from the district of
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