The Electoral College Explained
The Electoral College was designed to reflect the popular vote. A popular vote that depends on who is allowed to vote, and for whom.
The Electoral College was designed to reflect the popular vote. A popular vote that depends on who is allowed to vote, and for whom.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length…
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