Dbq Electoral Vote Analysis

We the people of the United States of America created a constitution that is the law of the land and has been for the past 234 years. However, this document was created during a time that was very unlike the modern world. Due to the differences in the world that the founding fathers lived in they made a grave mistake that has yet to reprimanded in the all powerful document controlling the country. The mistake that the country’s forefathers made was the installation and the henceforth continuation of the unfair and unjust electoral college. The electoral college is a disgusting negligence of one of the major principles that the United States was founded, popular sovereignty. The electoral college needs to be abolished and replaced immediately …show more content…
The electoral votes are spread in a way that is meant to give smaller states more power. However instead it serves to take power out of the hands of the people. The map of USA Electoral Votes shows that the minimum amount of electoral votes a state can have is 3. This creates a situation in which Wyoming has 3 votes, while California has 55. (Doc 4) This is overall an unfair representation of the population and their beliefs. It gives a state with 563,000 people 3 electoral votes, and a state with 37 million people only 55. That means that Wyoming has 187,875 population per electoral vote, while California has 677,345 population per electoral vote. (Doc 2) This essentially means that the people's vote in Wyoming has more sway in the election than each individual vote in California. This is a blatant disregard for the ideal of popular sovereignty; each and every person should be treated the same, but this is not the case. Due to the electoral college the people no longer have an equal say in the election of the president. The electoral college has destroyed the very pillars that the government of the United States was founded on, the people no longer have a true say in the leadership of their nation.
The electoral college must be abolished and replaced immediately in order to stop the negligence of popular sovereignty, give third parties a say in elections, and to stop the elite from ruling the country. Under the United States Constitution the people have lost the ability to represent themselves and have instead been given the false pretense that they elect the leader of their nation. Instead the people’s votes have been diminished and no longer have the weight of other citizens, this blatantly violates the very foundations that our nation was built