If a “popular vote” replacement of the Electoral system is allowed to stand, you can kiss “legal” recognition of the right to keep and bear arms goodbye, as well as anything meaningful ever happening to stop the ongoing invasion of “pathway to citizenship”-bound foreign nationals into this country. [More]Ask anyone who attempts to argue otherwise who would be president right now.
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IIRC, the Founders realized that under a direct popular vote system, the new Republic would come to be ruled by a few of the most populous states. The will of the people in the rest be damned. The smaller states, being no dummies, refused to agree. The result was one of many compromises that led to the birth of our nation. Now, some 230 years later, the "popular vote" proponents are trying for a do over?
I wonder what Dr Franklin would say about that.
"The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, 'Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?' With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, 'A republic, if you can keep it.' "
It doesn't pass the 'consent of Congress' part in the Constitution.
But who reads it these days
Under either condition, it’s not a question of “if,” just “when.” There’s only so many times you can flip a coin and have it come up heads… especially when the coin can lie. Assume the anti-gun Big Brother (or Sister) will eventually be elected, whether it is one or four election cycles from now, and make plans now for then.
"It doesn't pass the 'consent of Congress' part in the Constitution."
Under 1893's Virginia vs. Tennessee it doesn't have to.
The Supreme Court held in that case that Congressional consent is only required when the compact infringes upon authority of the Federal government. Since the Constitution gives the State Legislatures complete and total authority to direct how a state's electors are given this compact does not infringe upon Federal authority. The SL's do not even have to allow a state's citizens to vote in the presidential election. It wasn't until the 1870's before all states allowed their citizens to vote for president. The power is given to the State Legislatures in Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2.
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