Electoral College Reform Essay
?Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes,? (Benjamin Franklin, Letter to M. Leroy, 1789).The Electoral College was designed to provide a method of presidential selection for a form of government that combined a ?fragile federal union with republican principles? (Congressional Quarterly Inc.). This was a time of considerable rivalry and distrust among the states, a lack of a national communication system, and bad memories of abuse of executive power. The Electoral College was the result of a compromise between large and small states and the nationalists and federalists. This plan was brought about to ensure that the most qualified person, not necessarily the most popular, would be selected by groups of electors, representing their states but also expressing their personal convictions. However, the development of the party system, which led to the direct election of states of partisan electors, permanently altered the original plan and created a party-based, plurality-rule system in which electoral votes were allocated by states on a winner-take-all basis. The major consequences of such
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Approximate Word count = 906
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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