United States Electoral College

Inventors, states, and electors all have one thing in common and that is their rights. Whether they 're the rights to an invention or the inalienable rights of a human, they are all in place to protect the rightsholder. Protecting rights is a major idea that the founding fathers had in mind when declaring their independence. The electoral college is a rarely understood establishment, that provides rights to all voters in America, while protecting the states as well. Due to a low informed…

America’s Real Elector: The Electoral College “We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity by electing the electors who elect the President of the United States of America.” “In the summer of 1776, the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia and composed a resolution that began an armed…

One Man, One Vote: An Analysis of Faithless Electors Just a quarter century ago, 71% of United States’ residents had “a great deal” of confidence in the President (Gallup). Today, that number resides at approximately 33% (Gallup). Many reasons have been proposed to explain the decreased confidence both in the Presidency and Congress, which has seen about a 20% drop since 1991, but there is still debate among scholars as to what exactly contributes to this issue (Gallup). Regardless of who the…

government United States is one of them, started years before the civil war. American Democracy is consisted of a body of electoral college, that is a common process, consisted of the founding fathers that established in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President of the United States.The electoral college consists of 538 electors. Any one running for president will need 270 electoral votes. This a requirements for the position to be elected as a president. Also,…

for that candidate’s selected electors. According to the New York Times “the electoral college is a group of people that elects the president and vice president.” In the Electoral college there is a winner-take-all feature that can affect the outcome of presidential elections. It can create problems such as a candidate winning an election, even though they don’t have the majority rule. This system also affects which states the candidates specifically target in their campaigns. There are other…

The Electoral College is outdated and needs to be changed. In the United States our founding fathers devised a system, like none other, to elect the president. Through an indirect vote of the people. What this means is that people don’t actual vote for the president. They vote for electors that then vote for their pledged candidate. So for example, I vote for Trump in the election. I am not actually voting for Trump directly. I am actually voting for an elector that is pledged to vote for Trump…

Americans have either elected a Democratic or a Republican Party member to the highest office in the land. The Republicans and Democrats choose their nominees by going from state to state; having races among themselves and their tenets the hopeful must take after to get on the tally. The guidelines of voting change from state to state. On the off chance that you meet the prerequisites you…

some states chose to elect through caucus’ which is almost like an open debate where each candidate is represented by a crowd of people. Each citizen must physically get up and move to their candidates corner of the room. If someone says something and you chose to switch corners, you may, by physically moving to the other side of the room. By the end of a given time the people in each corner are counted and the corner with the most people has won the…

led by a president who serves as head of state and the head of government at the same time. The president is also the head of the army and directly responsible for foreign policy. The people vested the sovereignty to nominate representative who exercises them for the benefit of the whole nation. This means that the president is directly elected from time to time by the people through the electoral college which make up by the electors. Citizens of each state vote for slates of electors who then…

years ago by creating the Declaration of Independence and leading our country as third president of the United States. Throughout his life Jefferson will become many things such as a plantation owner, philosopher, and public official. Jefferson will also expand his political career by becoming a member of congress, secretary of state, and eventually becoming the president of the United States and serve for over five decades. All of Thomas Jefferson’s achievements that he strived and worked for…