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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citizen of legal age the right to vote in elections. The Electoral College provides electoral votes to candidates based popular votes. The Electoral College is unfair to popular vote as it is an indirect system of voting where citizens are not directly voting for the President. This system grants 538 electors to become the voice of 319 million. The Electoral College was established during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Electoral College is a “System established by the Constitution to elect
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the Electoral College and Go to a Popular Vote? The American way of electing the highest office in our country is hard to explain on a good day to a fellow American‚ let alone to a non-American. The question that often follows an explanation of the Electoral College is something like: why doesn’t the United States just adopt a popular vote? Through the course of this paper I will talk about first the history of the Electoral College. Secondly‚ I will discuss the negatives of the Electoral College
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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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information about the Electoral College. I will define the Electoral College and it’s true history of its name and much more. The Electoral College is filled with history and reasons it came to be as it is. Also I will explain to you how to become an Elector while telling you the significance and the ultimate job of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is A constitutional compromise between the opposing political factions to elect the president. The idea of the Electoral College was founded by the
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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 a Democracy?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some voter feel that their vote is practically useless. The founding
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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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of life for adulthood. Now that many things have changed from the previous generation of students at this specific college‚ the state is trying to use that against us. They are trying to raise the cost of tuition not only for the University of Louisiana at Monroe but all college in Louisiana. By raising the costs they are also raising the number of students to not enroll in college and also to drop out because of funding. The vast rise in tuition is only making students and family suffer so that
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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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Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all‚ many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one‚ technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television‚ we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general. There are
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