Electoral_College

Electoral College The Electoral College should definitely be abolished. It was necessary when our country was at its start but is now completely outdated. There have also been numerous problems with it. The Electoral College was designed without political parties in mind. In my opinion, the 2004 Election would be much better off if the Electoral College is abolished prior to it. The Electoral College was created by the Framers of the Constitution and is explained in Article II of the Constitution. When the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan were fused to create the Great Compromise, the Electoral College gave individual states a key role because each state would select electors equal to the number of representative it had in the House of Representatives and the Senate. It was a vague compromise that removed the election of the president and vice president from both the Congress and the people and put it in the hands of electors whose method of selection would be left to the states. The Electoral College may have been helpful when voting rights were extended to all free men, many of whom knew nothing of electoral, college, president, votes, candidate, vote, parties, electors, election, states, problems, political, jackson, house, constitution, between, been, without, vice, state, should, selection, result, rather, presidency, popular, politics, plan, people, key, jefferson, issues, greater, even, designed