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Electoral Votes Popular Votes
310 wordsWhy should Americans exercise their right to vote? Why should we vote? Is it really worth our time? The answer is YES. People say that one vote wont change the outcome, but take a look at Florida! Right now, the election of our president is in the people of Floridas hands. [Your] one vote is very important. Many people take voting for granted. You see? By voting, here in Oklahoma, we are really choosing eight representatives to go to the electoral colleges in December. Those same eight people ar...
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Electoral And Popular Vote
475 wordsElectoral and Popular Vote 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. In addition, DC has three electors. Then each state has the right to decide how to select these electors. Forty-eight states use the general ticket system, two, Maine and Nebraska, use the district system. The general ticket system is suppose...
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The Electoral College It Time To Move On
1,719 words... gress should select the President and those who felt the states should have a say. In 1788 the Electoral College was indoctrinated and placed into operation. The College was to allow people a say in who lead them, but was also to protect against the general public's ignorance of politics. Why the fear of the peoples ignorance of politics? It was argued that the people, left to their own devices could be swayed by a few designing men to elect a king or demagogue (McManus p. 19). With the Elec...
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1,488 wordsThe Electoral College is the statutory system in the United States for the election of the In 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Constitution of the United States was created. Before the Constitutional Convention, the United States had been governed under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was a weak central government. At the Constitutional Convention, the Founding Fathers were trying to create a rule of law governing the election ...
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1,371 wordsThe Two Party System in the United States Since the administration of George Washington, two political parties have dominated the United States political system. The American two party system is unique from other two party systems. The system allows the two major political parties to face off against one another in the operations of the government. This system is the result of a representative democracy. The Democrats and Republicans have dominated the political scene since our countries origin....
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1,008 wordsCritically asses the view that the Electoral College system 'serves American democracy well ' The Electoral College process is part of the original design of the U. S. constitution. The Electoral College was devised by the Founding Fathers to elect the president and vice president. In this essay I will asses whether the system is democratic. I shall do this by discussing its strengths, weaknesses and attempts to reform it. The Electoral College system has been criticised many times since its est...
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1,373 wordsThe next President of the United States, the successor to William Jefferson Clinton and man who will lead America as the first President of the new millennium is George W. Bush, the Republican governor of Texas, the son of a former President. Or it's Democratic Vice President Al Gore, President Clinton's right hand man for the past eight years. One of these gentlemen is the next leader of the free world. Who that gentleman is will in all likelihood be determined by the Supreme Court. Which is pr...
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1,264 wordsIs this sick or what? November 3 rd 2000 over 100 million American voters took to the polls unaware that their votes wouldnt matter. Al Gore won the popular vote and George W. Bush won the electoral vote; or did he? Something was not right in the state of Florida. The contest to become the 43 rd President of the United States became a Supreme Court dispute over the way we vote. The guy who got the most votes in the U. S. and in Florida and under our Constitution (Al Gore) will lose to America's ...
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1,222 wordsIn order to fully understand the workings of the Electoral College we must first look at its origins. What were the founding fathers considering when they created this system for electing our president? We must go back to the days where people still got around on horseback. In 1787, the nation was made up of only thirteen states and four million people. Crude transportation and communication were all that connected the country, making a national campaign unrealistic. Also, keep in mind that thes...
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Electoral College Election 2000
481 wordsThe Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. According to the electoral procedure originally specified in the Constitution, the electors were to vote for the two most qualified persons without specifying which was preferred for President and which for Vice President. The candidate receiving the greatest number of electoral votes, provided the votes of a majority of the electors were recei...
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1,335 words&# 9; With the surge of controversy surrounding the recent election, the United States has rekindled the Electoral College debate. However, this isn? t the first time that a tight election has resulted in unclear or contested results. Nor is it the first time the Electoral College has made a president out of the popular vote loser. In the over two hundred years since its construction, the Electoral College has demonstrated its shortcomings with more than its share of mishaps. Is this system a tr...
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331 wordsThe electoral college has been our method of electing president sinc eth constitution was formed. With increasing population and the addition of third parties, it can be questioned however, as to with or not this i still a functional method of elections. There have been many cases in history where a president has been elected to office without having the popular vote. Because after all when you vote in the primaries, you are not voting for a candidate, you are voting for an elector who then in t...
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722 wordsIn order to increase the ease of creating and establishing a federal government with a central figure of office, the framers of the Constitution created the Electoral College. The College was formed to ease the process of electing a president every four years. The idea behind the Electoral College was that each state received a certain number of electoral votes according to its population, all of which went to the candidate who won that States popular vote. In this day and age, questions arise a...
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1,199 wordsMany 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. Many Americans do not realize they do not vote for the President. The Electoral College actually elects the President. The Electoral College is a flawed institution that needs to be reformed. The Framers of the Constitution devised the electoral system based on...
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3,181 wordsThe world has known many great leaders, especially in the post-Civil War era. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr. , and Harry Truman all rank with the most prominent leaders of all time. However, in my opinion President Franklin Roosevelt made the most difference out of anybody in this century. He began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression that the country had succumbed to in 1929. Without him ending the Depression, who knows where this country could have gone? His...
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3,374 words1812 The election of 1812 consisted of a battle between James Madison, and De Witt Clinton. Madison had represented both Democratic and Republican beliefs, while Clinton was a Federalist. James Madison was born in Port Conway, Va. , on March 16, 1751. A Princeton graduate, he joined the struggle for independence on his return to Virginia in 1771. He had been an active politician in the 1770 s and 1780 s. He was greatly know for championing the Jefferson reform program, and in the Continental Con...
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3,309 wordsImportant presidential elections Some of the most important presidential elections 1812 The election of 1812 consisted of a battle between James Madison, and DeWitt Clinton. Madison had represented both Democratic and Republican beliefs, while Clinton was a Federalist. James Madison was born in Port Conway, Va. , on March 16, 1751. A Princeton graduate, he joined the struggle for independence on his return Virginia in 1771. He had been an active politician in the 1770 s and 1780 s. He was greatl...
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2,433 wordsNot the Best, but Better Than the Rest The method of choosing the president proved to be But one of many vexing problems for the fifty-five men who assembled in Philadelphia in May 1887 (Euchner, and Maltese 2). Our forefathers were faced with many hard decisions that would have repercussions for the next two centuries. One of the most perplexing problems facing them was the question of how to elect a president. They had to choose from three main systems: elect the president by congress, the peo...
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2,092 wordsThe framers intent of setting up the American government will never be known for sure, but it is gathered that they preferred a republic to a democracy. In the constitutional convention the drafters had to decide how much power they would entrust with the people of the United States, and how much should be controlled by representatives. They chose to have Congress make the laws, and congress would be selected directly by the people. But another branch of government, the executive branch, needed ...
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2,202 wordsFor more than 200 years the Electoral College has provided the United States with its President, but some may argue that this process contains many flaws. One argument is that it takes democracy out of the hands of the people. Another argument is that it allows for democratic compromise in various situations. When considering either argument one should also consider that it is time this system is reformed and that this revision should not wait any longer. When looking at the failures of the Elec...
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