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Originally Posted by sxeC6
I share the founding Fathers ideal, but trying to go back to 1788 when the Constitution was ratified and there were 13 States and a population of maybe 3 million is nuts.
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This argument has no value. It implies that simply because times have changed and population has changed, a certain aspect of government organization must also change or should also change.
The argument makes no more sense than arguing that we should stop breathing in air and instead use another method as our primary intake of oxygen because breathing in air is what the founding fathers did and by God times were a different back then and we had fewer states and people.
Tell me
WHY a popular vote is preferable to the electoral college and tell me
WHY we should go through the process of amending the constitution to change the way we elect our president and what benefit doing so would have. "The year is 2011 and 2011 is different from 1788" isn't good enough.