Definitions for Comparing Voting Power
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Tue Feb 5 21:01:06 PST 2002
The Electoral College is one of those totally evil so-called *Great
Compromises* in the Constitution --- along with slavery (blasted away in
1861-1865 at the cost of circa 620,000 dead folks and tens of thousands
maimed for life) and the minority rule U.S.A. Senate --- extorted in the 1787
Federal Convention by the slave and/or small States.
The U.S.A. Senate derives from the *TOTAL* emergency faced by the First
Continental Congress in May 1775 (just after the Battles of Lexington and
Concord on 19 Apr 1775-- beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
The FCC decided as an emergency expedient that each State delegation would
have one vote in the FCC since population estimates were a total guessing
game back then. Such emergency measure then was carried into the 1777
Articles of Confederation (effective Mar. 1781) and then into the U.S.A.
Senate in the 1787 U.S.A. Constitution -- i.e. a political- historical
accident.
The EC only hangs on because the popular vote losers (like Gore in 2000) have
not totally blasted the *system* as being ANTI-democratic and totally corrupt.
One of these years another minority rule President election (like in 1860)
may well produce another Civil War.
See also the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence (about
putting up with a whole lot of rotten political stuff).
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