The Electoral College

[Keith Broaders]

The Electoral College was created to prevent democracy from rearing its ugly head in America.

Allowing millions of ignorant and uninformed  voters participate in Presidential elections is a recipe for disaster.

The purpose of the Electoral College was to insure that the best candidates would win the Presidential elections.

The direct popular election of the President would be nothing more than one gigantic popularity contest.

With so many ignorant and unifirmed voters the quality of the candidates elected would turn the American Dream into a horrendous nightmare.

The Founding Fathers believed that  allowing a panel of virtuous wise men to elect our President would produce much better results.

The Electoral Collge was created to prevent democracy, which the founders considered to be mob rule

In the Preamble to the Constitution it doesn't say to create a more perfect nation. it says to create a more perfect unioin.

In the Treaty of Paris King George did not recognize the united States as a single nation, but as a union of 13 sovereign independent states.

The Union wasn't created to be ruled by a single monarch or millions of ignorant and uninformed voters.

The Union was created to provide for the common defense and general welfacre of all of the white men that owned a sufficient amount of property.

It was the intent of the men who wrote the Constitution to allow the states  to determine how the Presidential electors would be chosen. 

The legislators in five  of the states chose to appoint electors and while the other  states allowed the people elect their electors.

In all of the states it was the right and the responsibility of the electors to choose the candidate that they believed would best  honor his oath to preserve,protect and defend the Constitution and the God given rights of the people.

In George Washington's Farewell Address he warned that Political Factions and Regional differences would threaten the survival of the new nation.

Only five states held a popular election in 1788 and only 42,300 men actually voted for George Washingon. 

It wasn't until the Presidential election in 1828 practically all of the states had statewide  popular election for President.

[Keith Broaders]

In his 1796 Farewell Address, George Washington warned that political factions and the "spirit of party" would destroy national unity, encourage foreign influence, and allow "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" to seize power. He cautioned that intense partisanship creates artificial jealousies, foments riots, and prioritizes narrow party interests over the common good.