Posted on 10/14/2011 7:39:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Seems to me those changes centralized power in D.C. and made politicians of Senators. Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
If they would apportion the electoral college by % instead of winner takes all, there would never be a Democrat elected president. They want to get rid of the electoral college in the hopes of getting only populist presidents. Bad idea for a country designed specifically to avoid that kind of radicalism. Our Constitution and the balance of powers was put in place to ensure that change happens slowly.
Absolutely, sister, power was removed from the states and centralized in D.C.
It would be wrong to say that the states did not complain. It would be better to say that they were not heard. In many cases, they were complicit. In many cases, party politics was more important than the Constitution and the nation.
I am reminded of a Mark Twain quote - It is not so much what we don't know that gets us in trouble as it is those things which we do know that simply aren't true.
LOLOL!
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