Constitution
When the Constitution was signed it helped unite America. As situations in America changed, many amendments were added to the Constitution to try and adapt to the changing times. Slavery is said to be the key issue that resulted in the Civil War and the Constitution allowed the issue to continue an....
Constitution of the United States
The constitution as it was originally written in 1787 was not democratic, in my opinion. The definition of democracy is a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges or as other modern scholars define democracy as "as a system involving effective competition b....
Direct Election vs.Electoral College
Electoral College vs. Direct Election
By Andy Shepheard
Ever since the United StatesÂ’ Presidential election in 2000 controversy has rehatched about whether or not the Electoral College is the best system for our country to use when electing our leader. Some believe that a direct election or e....
Electoral College
Why does the US continue to keep the Electoral College around? Did our Founding Fathers simply not realize that the Electoral College system effectively took the power away from the people to select the President of American? Yes, they certainly did. In fact the Founding Fathers had always intended ....
Getting the Young to Vote
It has been axiomatic to elections that while college-age voters are
often very verbal about their political opinions, as a group, they vote
in extremely small numbers. According to political science professor Sheldon Kamieniecki, the non-voting record of students is part of a vicious cycle (Nic....
The Electoral College
References
Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, editor (Washington, D. C.: Jonathan Elliot, 1836), Vol. III, pp. 494-495, James Madison, June 18, 1788.
Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, 1800-1802, Harol....
The Electoral College
Critically asses the view that the Electoral College system ‘serves American democracy well ’ The Electoral College process is part of the original design of the U.S. constitution. The Electoral College was devised by the....
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