Keyes is wrong. This plan is wrong, but it is entirely constitutional. The Electoral college is not about "voting by the whole people of the United States. But in the first place, that whole is divided into individual states. In the individual states it is divided into individual districts. And in the individual districts, it focuses on the selection of individuals who best represent the whole people of each district."
There is nothing in the Constitution that mandates that the people be able to vote for electors at all. The state legislatures are given sole power to decide how state electors are selected. When the nation was founded the electors were for the most part selected by the state legislatures. In some states this continued until the 1860's. The state legislature of California could decide tomorrow to return to selecting the electors without a vote by the citizens.
Nonetheless, the reasons it is being done are grounds, the imposition of tyranny. In re legislatures doing the selection, I and like-minded neighbors have a lot more influence on our local rep. and his vote equals a vote from a more populated urban/Democrat area rep.
Keyes is wrong. This plan is wrong, but it is entirely constitutional. The Electoral college is not about "voting by the whole people of the United States. But in the first place, that whole is divided into individual states. In the individual states it is divided into individual districts. And in the individual districts, it focuses on the selection of individuals who best represent the whole people of each district."
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing in the Constitution that mandates that the people be able to vote for electors at all. The state legislatures are given sole power to decide how state electors are selected. When the nation was founded the electors were for the most part selected by the state legislatures. In some states this continued until the 1860's. The state legislature of California could decide tomorrow to return to selecting the electors without a vote by the citizens.
Nonetheless, the reasons it is being done are grounds, the imposition of tyranny. In re legislatures doing the selection, I and like-minded neighbors have a lot more influence on our local rep. and his vote equals a vote from a more populated urban/Democrat area rep.
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