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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (160282)2/7/2003 9:57:40 AM
From: brian1501  Read Replies (1) of 1578704
 
However, like I said to D.Ray, I think the EC is outdated. Ray confirmed that with his posting of the founding fathers comments. I had forgotten the EC was intended to make up for what they perceived as the colonists political incompetency. Some of those delegates were federalists or tories, and tended to be elitist in their view of this new democracy. The EC was a safeguard put in by these people.


If you do away with the EC, you might as well do away with States in general. Remember, we are a union of States. It was not that long ago that Senators were appointed by the state legislatures. People voted for their state reps, then those reps voted for the federal reps.

The EC makes smaller states important too. They might as well remove themselves from the union otherwise as they would never have an impact on the election. Nobody would campaign outside of the big cities.

Brian
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