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Originally Posted by Yardjass
If you dug the founding fathers up and explained to them that the press transmits instantly and every citizen's vote is a keystroke away, but we're still going to keep the old system, they'd laugh in your face.
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If we dug the founding fathers up they would be freaking out over the fact we are letting women and coloreds vote. They would be besides themselves regarding welfare, taxes and the idea that we would even entertain abortion or gay marriage.
They where likely far more conservative than anything we can compare too today. Remember only land owning, God fearing white men could originally vote?
Also, history bro.
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The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
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http://www.archives.gov/federal-regi...ege/about.html
In other Democracies Congress/Parliament or the ruling party select the Leader.
You vote for the party, they do the rest.