SCOTUS’ Electoral College Decision
The decision invalidates the central role of the Electoral College. The Electors chuse [sic] the President; and, the systems faith is in knowing this whole’s discretionary character; predicated upon their nomination and election to position.
The state legislature to mandate a Popular Vote to take all minifies/minimizes the core to merely a ‘point system;’ whereby no Electors are needed.
The meeting of the Electors to sign on their, final, decisions.
Thus this system’s entire reliance is upon representation; at its foundation is the formation of a select set of individuals; with, which whom the power lay to establish the grounds of each governance cycle, through further selections of judicial officials. The very nature of the system is through indirect powers; giving authorative responsibility to those entrusted. This design had [in part] the intention of slowing the public sway to some momentary swing of position; generating a stable system.
PLEDGE LAWS
The idea of appointing them in the first place establishes contrary grounds than is argued in the 19 465_i425 opening statements. Rather than simply assigning a “points system” to the states; there is the layer of Elector discretionary power to cast their vote.
As such, this systems fundamental design is around the separation of powers; this includes the people from the government; through the filters of representatives.
To bind a contract to a vote is abhorrent.
Thus this exemplifies the public interest in maintaining a just system through the chusing of the representing individuals. Laying the burden of knowing the characters of those who set the tone of the nation.
Citing Justice Jackson
“no one faithful to our history can deny that the plan originally contemplated what is implicit in its text – that electors would be free agents, to exercise an independent and nonpartisan judgment as to the men best qualified for the Nation’s highest offices.”
The history of recent debates around this seem to adjust words weightings; changing the context of them to a slanted perspective; with continued eschewing of the premise in the original document.
Firstly with the decisions set forth and further by the adherence to without requestioning of the faulty decision Justice Jackson spoke out on.
The next clause (but don’t get attached: it will soon be su- perseded) set out the procedures the electors were to follow in casting their votes. In brief, each member of the College would cast votes for two candidates in the presidential field. The candidate with the greatest number of votes, assuming he had a majority, would become President. The runner-up would become Vice President. If no one had a majority, the House of Representatives would take over and decide the winner.
That plan failed to anticipate the rise of political parties, and soon proved unworkable. The Nation’s first contested presidential election occurred in 1796, after George Wash- ington’s retirement. John Adams came in first among the candidates, and Thomas Jefferson second. That meant the leaders of the era’s two warring political parties—the Fed- eralists and the Republicans—became President and Vice President respectively. (One might think of this as fodder for a new season of Veep.) Four years later, a different prob- lem arose. Jefferson and Aaron Burr ran that year as a Re- publican Party ticket, with the former meant to be Presi- dent and the latter meant to be Vice. For that plan to succeed, Jefferson had to come in first and Burr just behind him. Instead, Jefferson came in first and Burr . . . did too. Every elector who voted for Jefferson also voted for Burr, producing a tie. That threw the election into the House of Representatives, which took no fewer than 36 ballots to elect Jefferson. (Alexander Hamilton secured his place on the Broadway stage—but possibly in the cemetery too—by lobbying Federalists in the House to tip the election to Jef- ferson, whom he loathed but viewed as less of an existential threat to the Republic.) By then, everyone had had enough of the Electoral College’s original voting rules.
What is the problem with opposing political parties representing Presidential and Vice- offices? How is this “unworkable”? Is it not stated in the constitution that it is decided by the House’o’Rep’s?
Contrary to the existing status quo; the premise that the Electoral College candidate selection may be, prima faci, the most in important selection process. Where, the decisions regarding the 12th Addendum and selecting Candidates for the Electoral College predicated upon the popular presidential candidate
Is the Party System the Problem?
With the … ‘Whiplash/polarization/horse-race effect’ & vs. Election of [special]Quorum … the Electoral College is a well thought out way to keep the governments control until that one day told by Thoreau where there shall be no government. In the mean time, adherence of another-cite to be wary of that which is the constitutional ball of wax in the hands of the judiciary.
Where the ELEVENTH Hour Committee was used to establish the protocols, we should look at Maine & ?’s example as the outliers before befalling to blind biased prejudices. Malcom Gladwell Outliers & others…-cite
While Federal Judge LAED-cite states as argument that Nov 3rd is the deadline; reality posits that it is, in fact, March 3, 2021 for the process to be finalized.
Slippery slope already begun long ago; the selection of the Electoral College should be held more dear; than, the President itself.
State Legislature Discretion
Cannot override the fundamental intent of the process to begin with.