Save Federalism, Save the Electoral College

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Abbeville Institute:

Save Federalism, Save the Electoral College

By Vito Mussomeli on Dec 1, 2016

 

Discussing immigration and sanctuary cities, Bill O’Reilly began speaking of the coming clash of two “sovereignties”, the States individually and the national government, but never got to finish his sentence. Speaker Gingrich interrupted to say, “there is one sovereignty” in America and that’s the national government. “The Civil War settled the sovereignty question.” Unfortunately, the Speaker is correct. We need a bit of history…

 

Sovereignty is the inalienable power of free will parcel to our creation by our Creator to join in compact with another and to disjoin from that compact for reasons the other may or may not understand. They are sides of the same coin: the inherent and inalienable power of free will. The joining and the disjoining (secession) are expressions of free will and neither Constitutional nor Unconstitutional but Extra-Constitutional.

 

A compact is for the governance of our private or public lives, as we determine. In the private realm, it is marriage or friendship or any relationship in which two or more decide their way to associate. In the public square, it is a fundamental governing act of a people to join in compact any other sovereign people of any other place on earth.

 

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The Electoral College Is Not Like Slavery

By Curt 1 Comment Sat, Dec, 3rd, 2016 97 views

Dan McLaughlin:

The Hill published a hilariously overwrought article earlier this week entitled “How the Electoral College changes the value of a person, a bit like slavery did.” The authors are Robert Epstein, described as a “Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT) and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today,” and a research assistant at AIBRT, Shu Zhang. Dr. Epstein’s Twitter bio describes him as the “Most frequently quoted #psychologist in US.” The tenor of the piece should serve as a caution to anyone considering quoting psychologists on American politics:

 

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a curious compromise was struck. Southern states wanted slaves counted when determining how representatives to Congress would be apportioned. Ultimately, Northern states agreed to treat each slave as 3/5ths of a person for such purposes.

Given the unprecedented results of the 2016 presidential election, we began wondering whether some Americans are once again worth more than others.

 

Epstein and Zhang assign a “voter value” by dividing the number of votes cast in a state by the state’s electoral votes; the number represents how many electors each state gets per 333,333 voters: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/442733/print

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I have some real bad news for our friends on the Left. If you want to get rid of the electoral college you have to amend the constitution....good luck with that.

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Ditching Electoral College would allow California to impose imperial rule on a colonial America

 

By Michael Barone • 12/4/16 12:01 AM

They're still counting the votes, going on four weeks after the election, in California. In Brazil, a nation with much more challenging geography, they manage to do it in five hours.

 

The seemingly endless dilly-dallying of California's (presumably union-represented) public employees has obscured two interesting things about this year's presidential election.

 

The first is that the Electoral College loser Hillary Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote by a considerably wider percentage margin than her counterparts in the elections of 2000 and 1888, Al Gore and Grover Cleveland — though apparently less than the percentage margin for Samuel Tilden in 1876.

 

The second is that for the first time in the nation's history the most populous state was a political outlier, voting at one extreme in the national political spectrum.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ditching-electoral-college-would-allow-california-to-impose-imperial-rule-on-a-colonial-america/article/2608766