Except that the States were not ratified at the time the electoral college was established.. There was no population census. It was not a leveler of State populations, as you were told. Get a map, a copy of the Constitution, and Google some dates. Then think for yourself. The system was perverted into the cluster we have today, but that …
Except that the States were not ratified at the time the electoral college was established.. There was no population census. It was not a leveler of State populations, as you were told. Get a map, a copy of the Constitution, and Google some dates. Then think for yourself. The system was perverted into the cluster we have today, but that is in no way what it was devised to be. One vote for every citizen. Delegates were chosen by their neighbors, not a party.
Everyone knew which states were larger in population and which smaller. I can't believe you wrote "the States were not ratified..." That is astonishingly historically illiterate.
Except that the States were not ratified at the time the electoral college was established.. There was no population census. It was not a leveler of State populations, as you were told. Get a map, a copy of the Constitution, and Google some dates. Then think for yourself. The system was perverted into the cluster we have today, but that is in no way what it was devised to be. One vote for every citizen. Delegates were chosen by their neighbors, not a party.
Everyone knew which states were larger in population and which smaller. I can't believe you wrote "the States were not ratified..." That is astonishingly historically illiterate.