The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 30, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
Once upon a time, the Electoral College was not controversial. During the debates over ratifying the Constitution, Anti-Federalist opponents of ratification barely mentioned it. But by the mid-twentieth century, opponents of the Electoral College nearly convinced Congress to propose an amendment to scrap it. And today, more than a dozen states have joined in an attempt to hijack the Electoral College as a way to force a national popular vote for president.
What changed along the way? And does it matter? After all, the critics of the Electoral College simply want to elect the president the way we elect most other officials. Every state governor is chosen by a statewide popular vote. Why not a national popular vote for president?
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3 comments:
Abraham Lincoln lost the popular vote so had there not been an electoral college slavery wouldn’t have been abolished
That doesn't matter now bud. There's no real crisis in the 21st century. They have to make up crisis now. So all the alt left has is rigging things like electoral college, and fake crisis. They're like a bunch of little kids that only want it their way.
Democrats attacking anything American.
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