...the dangerous reality of the Electoral College in the time of Citizen's United requires a serious approach to removing the constitutional law with an Amendment to the US Constitution. The process of organizing 501(c)3 and 4 at the state level should begin. It will require an enormous effort to pass a federal constitutional amendment, especially this one, now is a good time to begin. The reality of a viral explosion is too dangerous to ignore.
The Georgia Senate election has never been more important.
By Phillip J VanFossen
The delegates in Philadelphia agreed, (click here) in the summer of 1787, that the new country they were creating would not have a king but rather an elected executive. But they did not agree on how to choose that president.
Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson called the problem of picking a president "in truth, one of the most difficult of all we have to decide." Other delegates, when they later recounted the group’s effort, said "this very subject embarrassed them more than any other – that various systems were proposed, discussed, and rejected."
They were at risk of concluding their meetings without finding a way to pick a leader. In fact, this was the very last thing written into the final draft. Had no agreement been reached, the delegates would not have approved the Constitution.
I am a civics educator who has also run Purdue University’s Constitution Day celebration for 15 years, and one lesson I always return to is the degree to which the founders had to compromise in order to ensure ratification. Selecting the president was one of those compromises....
