Why the Electoral College?

AssHatZombie said:
It was designed to stop illegal alien votes from stealing elections.
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The electoral college as designed by the founders did not include any elections and there were no illegal aliens then. It was not until the 1990s that federal elections were limited to U. S. citizens (based on state laws).
 
Nordberg said:
It was designed to placate the slave states so they would enter the union. It is known.http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/ In the beginning they allowed 5 slaves to = 3 votes. that was also a way to give more power to the slave states but not provide equality to blacks. The Repubs still don't want to let blacks vote.
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no, you simple minded dick.....the big states included Virginia which was a slave state and the small states included Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which were not......repeating idiotic lib'rul memes doesn't make you look LESS stupid.......
 
Threedee said:
Are leftists incapable of understanding the 3/5 Compromise, or do you really think you can capitalize by lying about it? The south wanted to count every single slave as a whole person for the purposes of congressional apportionment. The north argued that they shouldn't be counted at all. In order to placate the south, the 3/5 compromise was offered.

It's kind of like how the south wanted only proportional representation, but the north wanted equal representation, so the Connecticut delegation offered the compromise to have both. Anyway, true to form, you lying leftists have been claiming that the Senate was set-up to benefit slave states.
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odd the demmycrats didn't actually let their slaves vote.....
 
Flash said:
Listen again. Those are all just clearly established facts. Try to find anything in the Constitution about the people voting for the electors/president.
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Sure the electoral college is unconstitutional.

How about gun bans? Or are you a fair weather constitutionalist?
 
AssHatZombie said:
Sure the electoral college is unconstitutional.

How about gun bans? Or are you a fair weather constitutionalist?
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How can the electoral college which is an original provision of the Constitution (amended by the 12th amendment) be unconstitutional?

Heller struck down gun bans.
 
The electoral college was about the ability to count slaves in determining how many seats they would get. That is to placate slave states, who had much larger populations, but far fewer eligible voters, Slaves were not permitted to vote. But slave states wanted to count slaves in rewarding the number of seats each state would get in congress. The 3/th compromise allowed them to count 3 for every 5 slaves, but only in seats. Slaves could not vote. So that made every vote in a slave state worth more than a vote in another state. That is fundmentally uncostitutional. The electoral college should not have been allowed.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
no, you simple minded dick.....the big states included Virginia which was a slave state and the small states included Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which were not......repeating idiotic lib'rul memes doesn't make you look LESS stupid.......
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Dumb shit, slave states had larger popultions if they counted slaves. Not if they could not. The slave states had smaller amounts of ELIGIBLE voters. Therefore they wrung out the 3/5ths compromise.
 
Flash said:
So this was not a serious statement? "Sure the electoral college is unconstitutional." [AssHat].
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If you believe in one man = one vote, it is unconstitutional. The slave states voters got an unfair amount of power in their votes.
 
Nordberg said:
If you believe in one man = one vote, it is unconstitutional. The slave states voters got an unfair amount of power in their votes.
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There is nothing about one man=one vote in the Constitution. The electoral college is in the constitution so by definition it cannot be unconstitutional.

The slave states got less power because only 3/5 of slaves were counted for representation as opposed to all the slaves; therefore, the House had fewer southern representatives because of the the 3/5 compromise.
 
Obviously, since slaves could not vote and neither could many of the people vote due to requirements, the constitution did not push one man one vote. However is that a principle the US was supposed to be founded on. When blacks were permitted to vote, that was the argument. The Supreme Court has used "one man ,one vote" as a reason for decisions several times.The Supremes apparently see it as a founding principle.
 
The Electoral College as now constituted...is an abomination to the notion of one person/one vote. The EC absurdly favors the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, there is no way it is going to be changed.

Live with it. It is here to stay.
 
Nordberg said:
Dumb shit, slave states had larger popultions if they counted slaves. Not if they could not. The slave states had smaller amounts of ELIGIBLE voters. Therefore they wrung out the 3/5ths compromise.
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stick your failed memes up your ass and stop posting till you get an education.....I'm through with you.....post more crap and I will go back to fixing the mistakes in you posts....
 
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