stopthatgirl7Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
danieltonThey told me in high school that the electoral college was still necessary because counting the popular vote was too hardโฆ
No. Itโs because states that have huge populations would choose the president with basically zero say from most others. Technically a non representative government.
๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐ You solve the โproblemโ of โtyranny of the majorityโ by having a strong constitution and good rights and protections for minorities, not by switching to the indisputably worse option of โtyranny of the minorityโ. Because that causes the exact same problem, but for even more people instead.
The issue is while a strong constitution is nice, itโs necessary to have at least some people in office who would respect the constitution to be effective, including at least a partially originality supreme court.
Alternatively, more clearly written constitutional laws. Itโs wild that you have judges who cannot agree on what an article of the constitution really means, and the language should have been amended years ago.
In the Netherlands, we have a clearly written constitution, but no real โsupreme courtโ in the American sense. And that setup seems to work quite well.
Agreed some should be clarified, but a lot are pretty clear but are denied as unclear for political reasons. One obvious example is the 2nd amendment of the bill of rights. Also, keep in the mind the US constitution is the oldest constitution still in use, so language does evolve somewhat.