defines the Electoral College as a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. The founding fathers of our nation ingrained it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and by a popular vote of adept citizens. Research will show the impact and importance the Electoral College has on the political system in the United States. The process of the Electoral College consists of
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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 American presidential electoral system consists of five different stages‚ the main two being the primaries and the Electoral College. Although the Electoral College has been used since the founding fathers wrote the constitution‚ meaning there are many strengths in the system‚ the weaknesses of the system outweigh substantially the strengths. Some of these being‚ the candidate without the popular vote can be elected as president. For example in the 2000 presidential elections‚ George Bush won
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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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“electors” that will represent their respective states in the body that actually elects the president and the vice president‚ the Electoral College. So what exactly is the Electoral College? It consists of 538 electors where each state has a number of electoral votes equal to its total number of representatives to Congress
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we really don’t have a say so. We‚ in reality‚ just vote for State Electors who then hold the electoral vote to vote for the next president. This is an unjust way to do this in a “democratic” country. I do not believe the electoral college is an equitable way to elect the President of United States. Alexander Hamilton‚ one of the Founding Fathers of United States‚ had agreed with the electoral college. He says‚ “It was equally desirable‚ that the immediate election should be made by men most capable
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Today‚ all presidential college electoral are chosen by voters. Although in the early republic‚ more than half of the states had chosen electors in their legislature body‚ this eliminated any direct involvement by the voting public in the elections. There are three categories of presidential power: Constitutional powers: which are explicitly granted by the Constitution‚ Delegated powers: these powers were granted by Congress to help the president fulfill his duties‚ and Inherent powers: inherent
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make up the Electoral College. “Article II‚ section I‚ clause 2 provides that no Senator or Representative or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed as Elector.” In the beginning‚ the 14th Amendment provided that any state officials who had engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States or had given comfort and aid to the enemies of the United States would not be able to serve as an Elector in the Electoral College. This related
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5th Grade /Summarize Main Idea • Summarize the main ideas and supporting details Summarize stated and implied themes Identify the main incidents of a plot sequence and explain how they influence future action Clarify steps in a set of instructions or procedures for proper sequencing and completeness and revise if necessary Summarize the information in texts‚ recognizing that there may be several important ideas rather than just one main idea and identifying details that support each List questions
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and the Electoral College (is reform needed?): DQ1 has four parts‚ and note that part 4 has two sub-parts: 1. Briefly summarize how the Electoral College works. 2. Briefly explain the pros and cons of whether to keep or abolish the Electoral College. 3. Briefly explain one proposal for changing the Electoral College process without abolishing it (i.e.‚ without having to amend the Constitution). 4. Evaluate this proposal from two perspectives: (a) the relevance of the Electoral College’s
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