Electoral College If there was in place a system that has not failed in its purpose of transitioning power in a peaceful way for over 200 years would you think it prudent to replace said system? I believe you should not, but that's exactly what some people want to do. Replacing it with a direct democracy straying the election process away from its constitutional republic design. Being, in turn, the whole design of the American government. The Electoral College should not be dissolved because of its roots in the historical America, efficiency while providing a clear-cut winner, and representing all demographic groups. The idea of direct democracy sounds appealing, but is that what America was truly designed for?
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Their reasoning was they were utterly against any authoritarian leadership. Having felt and seen the ineffectiveness of such a design in Europe. Thomas Jefferson among many feared such power saying “If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.” This gives use insight into the mind of a man who studied the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Drawing great inspiration from the social contract. Which in essence is a mutual obligation between a government, and its people to work with each other for the common good of the whole. -----They wanted a government for the people and by the people. Many things were in play at this point in the country one of the front running issues was a diversity of
Their reasoning was they were utterly against any authoritarian leadership. Having felt and seen the ineffectiveness of such a design in Europe. Thomas Jefferson among many feared such power saying “If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.” This gives use insight into the mind of a man who studied the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Drawing great inspiration from the social contract. Which in essence is a mutual obligation between a government, and its people to work with each other for the common good of the whole. -----They wanted a government for the people and by the people. Many things were in play at this point in the country one of the front running issues was a diversity of