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The Electoral College System
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Many Americans take pride in the fact that the United States has a
democratic form of rule. They believe they directly elect their officials
to represent them. This is no true in all cases. The Presidency is not a
directly elected office. Man .... Middle of Term Paper
... to have congress do it. However, if congress was to elect the
president, then the president might feel an obligation to help congress get
certain laws passed by not vetoing. This would put a dent in the checks and
balances system. Even with this problem the system was voted for and
approved on four different occasions (Peirce 39).
Basically the Electoral College system works like this today. Every
ten years the census figures adjusts how many representatives each state
has. This number plus two, representing the two senators, equals how many
electors each state has. Also Washington DC has 3 electors. Then each state
has the right t ... |
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