Essay On Direct Popular Vote

Direct popular vote could cause for a series of problems and there is a reason for why it is not used in order to decide the constitutional amendments. The biggest reason can be found in the fact that if an idea can catch onto the public, it will capture and convince the opinions of over fifty percent of a direct popular vote. In the situation that this scenario does occur, it would cause for major threats across the United States as a whole. A similar effect could be seen early on in the essay The Federalist No. 10 when James Madison says that a faction is, “… a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community” (James Madison). The statement made then applies to the present because the amendment that is decided upon does indeed help about half the population, however at the same time have a catastrophic change onto the other half. Also if the …show more content…
The amount of people in the United States could cause for a dilemma due to the fact that there are several millions of people that would be needed to be counted for in order for this to be achieved. According to one website, “If there is a close popular election, we face a national recount…” (Direct Popular Vote v. The Electoral College). For this reason, a national recount would not be the easiest of tasks to be considered due to how complicated the situation can get. This could be due to the costs needed to hire people to survey the number of people in each household and in general, creating for a very messy situation. Not only this, but for a national survey to take place would require many hours of work or even up to weeks before results would get back in time for a decision on a constitutional