I give credit to your son, but it defeats the founders' compromise of respecting and giving weight to each of the states in a federalist society.
The Senate gives each state equal representation -- 2 votes -- on all legislation.
The Electoral College factors in both the House with its popular vote, and the Senate with its states right vote. It's brilliant, to my thinking, and ought to be preserved.
In fact, any argument to eliminate the Electoral College, which is comprised of a total of the House and Senate votes, 538, is an argument that can be used to eliminate the Senate. The only argument that I can think of in favor of eliminating the Senate is that Hillary, Kennedy, Boxer, Corzine, Wellstone, and a few others would be out of a job. |
