04-30-2004, 08:17 AM
Quote:n The manner of choosing the Electors was left to the individual State legislatures, thereby pacifying States suspicious of a central national government.
Quote:It is noteworthy in passing that the idea of electing the president by direct popular vote was not widely promoted as an alternative to redesigning the Electoral College. This may be because the physical and demographic circumstances of the country had not changed that much in a dozen or so years. Or it may be because the excesses of the recent French revolution (and its fairly rapid degeneration into dictatorship) had given the populists some pause to reflect on the wisdom of too direct a democracy.
Quote:yup, I don't get why states rights should have so much influence in something that effects each state exactly the same.
Quote:At worst, no president would emerge with a popular majority sufficient to govern the whole country. At best, the choice of president would always be decided by the largest, most populous States with little regard for the smaller ones.
A canidate wouldn't have to do anything in Delaware, because he only needs to suck up to people in New York. Basically, the people of New York are more important than the people in Delaware because there are so many people in one general area.