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To: Amendment10

That is true that the Constitution gave the Senators and Potus to the states to decide. But from the beginning, a vote was held by all states to choose electors for President...an advice to the states, in a way.

And until dumblecrats decided in 2016 that they just didn’t need to abide by the decisions of the People for their electors, the system worked fairly well. Even popular votes for Senators. I do wish it reverted back to Senators picked by the states as originally written.


27 posted on 12/27/2022 2:37:01 AM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Adder; All
Thanks for reply.

"a vote was held by all states to choose electors for President"


The Constitution wasn't ratified until the year after George Washington won the first election, so Washington didn't necessarily have official constitutional electors. I think Pennsylvania used the popular vote for Washington.

The states that continued winner-take-all laws for POTUS haven't read the Constitution that they ratified and then swore to protect and defend.

"And until dumblecrats decided in 2016 that they just didn’t need to abide by the decisions of the People for their electors,"


Probably many citizens don't understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally given ordinary voters the specific power to vote for POTUS, voters wrongly believing that they control who the president is.

I wouldn't be surprised if activist states used this "loophole" as an excuse to cheat the ballot box.

"I do wish it reverted back to Senators picked by the states as originally written."


ALL the states can effectively "secede" from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (ordinary citizen vote for federa senators) Amendments (16&17A), repealing them faster than Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House if they want to.

If the repeal 16&17A amendment was strictly limited to that purpose, then relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed imo.

36 posted on 12/27/2022 8:07:35 AM PST by Amendment10
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