The Electoral College is not actually a place; it is how we elect our President per the Constitution. The Founders created this system as a compromise between choosing a President by popular vote or a vote by Congress (“U. S. Electoral College, Official - What Is the Electoral College?). Although this system has been in place since the beginning of our country, there are both good and bad things about it. To understand whether this system should be kept or abolished, it is important to see how it works. Each state chooses Electors through a two-part process. The first part of the process is when each political party chooses Electors within each state. This is done during the primary elections, when parties narrow down who will represent their
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I was fresh out of high school and all my teachers were enforcing in the students to register, claiming; “It’s our future”. I engaged into the political process by studying each candidate. I had acknowledged my voting rights and my opinion didn’t seem like it would go far or count in any sort. My second time voting, Election year 2016, I understand more and can give more insight as a Young Adult to new voters and what the cause and effect could be. I encourage them to express their own opinion through their vote and that it does count. We the People can vote out the System and your vote will for sure count. I think engaging in the political process is not all about voting but practicing our rights from past rights to near future rights, especially; with the different Presidents, we will have. Hamilton’s ideas from the Federalist Paper 68, was towards building the Electoral College by entrusting a person making commitments to help and defend the country. He wanted to appoint someone with intense ideas and a great strategy to move the country forward, away from any potential dangers. By doing this, he had to select certain electors which in his time there weren’t as many states. Hamilton wanted someone who wouldn’t corrupt the body of the people, which states in the Constitution; it had to be done at the time (The Avalon Project: Federalist No 68,
I was fresh out of high school and all my teachers were enforcing in the students to register, claiming; “It’s our future”. I engaged into the political process by studying each candidate. I had acknowledged my voting rights and my opinion didn’t seem like it would go far or count in any sort. My second time voting, Election year 2016, I understand more and can give more insight as a Young Adult to new voters and what the cause and effect could be. I encourage them to express their own opinion through their vote and that it does count. We the People can vote out the System and your vote will for sure count. I think engaging in the political process is not all about voting but practicing our rights from past rights to near future rights, especially; with the different Presidents, we will have. Hamilton’s ideas from the Federalist Paper 68, was towards building the Electoral College by entrusting a person making commitments to help and defend the country. He wanted to appoint someone with intense ideas and a great strategy to move the country forward, away from any potential dangers. By doing this, he had to select certain electors which in his time there weren’t as many states. Hamilton wanted someone who wouldn’t corrupt the body of the people, which states in the Constitution; it had to be done at the time (The Avalon Project: Federalist No 68,