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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Assignment Topic: Submitted to Khmedsakjfsdajf The Advantages and Disadvantages of Federal System of Government Federalism that also we can say federal system is political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. It is one that divides the powers of government between the national government and state and local governments. The Constitution of the United States established the federal system‚ also known as federalism. Under federalism‚
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states. This is in no way fair to the American people who truly care about who takes office. Though the Electoral College was created to represent the will of the American people‚ it is a failure at reflecting that
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Sam Thompson 1/12/14 ‘The electoral college should be replaced by a national popular vote.’ Discuss. (45 marks) The Electoral College is a political institution that every 4 years is indirectly given the task of electing the president and vice-president of the United States of America into power. The idea behind the Electoral College is that it would give power to people that know politics so that they can make an informed decision on who should be president. This institution is a staple of the
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Electoral College is a process of presidential nominations. A body of people representing the states of the United States‚ who casts votes for the election of the president and vice president. Also‚ can be seen as an election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of eligible citizens. “In the Article II of the U.S. Constitution Electoral College was seen as a compromise for the presidential election process because politicians believed that a purely
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According to the National Archive‚ The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College was established within 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 The Electoral College although develop by the founding fathers
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If we would have discontinued the electoral college process to electoral our president and change it to base off popularity. The reason why we have the electoral college is to proportional representation which allows for the balancing in state votes to be counted. If we only have a national government based on a popular voting system‚ the cities in certain regions would overrule the rural and more isolated populations. Their voices would be not heard. The attention of many citizens is protected
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Democracy is a system of government that gives power to the people‚ whether directly or through elected representatives. The United States’s system is a democracy where the people’s votes‚ opinion‚ and action make a difference. Every four years we hold an election to select who will be our succeeding president. When our country was being developed we had a group of white‚ well-educated‚ and most part wealthy males who were known as the Framers. The Framers of the United States created a system called
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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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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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