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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“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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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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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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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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to other countries of the concept of giving all citizens equal share 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 the right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a republic?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some votes practically useless. The founding fathers believed that most
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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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every four years in November. The electoral votes are based on the population of a state and affect the election in the long run. The Senate of a state is granted two electoral votes towards the national election. The rest of the electoral votes are based on the popular vote in the districts of a state. The Electoral College was created by the U.S. founding fathers because they were afraid that a dictator could manipulate the votes of the people. The Electoral College is a controversial topic because
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The Electoral College follows a winner-take all representative system‚ which means that the voices of some citizens will not matter. The Electoral College is a system of representatives included in the U.S. Constitution‚ created by the Founding Fathers‚ to help ensure that voters selecting the president were qualified and knowledgeable. These voters were chosen‚ because they knew what they were doing‚ rather than possible unreasonable voting by the public. However‚ this system is not required anymore
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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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