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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (3187)	12/22/2016 4:42:13 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357140

I guess the Constitution may have flaws. The other day, I commented somewhere on the unbelievable prescience the Framers had for providing the Electoral College to prevent a few centralized population centers (New York City, Chicago, all of California, etc.) from being able to control the presidential election process. It would be much simpler today to just count the votes. But to do so would undoubtedly result in the collapse of the Union. There really isn't anyone today I would trust to "fix" our constitution. I know brilliant people who simply could not see that problem coming. They had to fight back very strong tendencies, and they did it in multiple ways (the Convention of States provision in Article V is another astoundingly thoughtful provision that I cannot imagine anyone dreaming up today). I tend to think they typically got it right. There was no need for them to define it.