How We We Lost Oue Republic

[Keith Broaders]

A republican form of government is characterized by a series of checks and balances designed to prevent the dangers of democracy. The electoral college was created to prevent a tyranny of the majority. The electors were supposed to use their own best judgment in voting for the President.  The method of choosing the electors was delegated to the legislatures of the states, and the electors were initially chosen by the state legislatures or elected by the people in the Congressional districts.

In the election pf 1788, George Washington received all of the 69 electoral votes and the electors were wise men of integrity. Out of the     3,683,439 people in the United States only in 1788 only 39,624 popular votes were cast.

Connecticut, Georgia,  New Jersey, New York, South Carolina

The states legislatures choose the elector

Massachusetts

Two electors appointed by state legislature each remaining elector chosen by state legislature from the two most popular candidates in each U. S. House district

New Hampshire

Each elector chosen by voters statewide; however, if no candidate wins majority, state legislature appoints electors from top ten candidates

Virginia and Delaware

State divided into electoral districts, with one elector chosen

per district by the voters of that district

Maryland and Pennsylvania

Electors chosen at large by voters

North Carolina abd RhodIe Island

had not yet ratified the Constitution 
History of How Electors Have Been Chosen

 1788       1792      1796      1800       1804       1808 

1812     1816      1820       1824       1828       1832

October 26 – December 1, 1824 1828 →
261 members of the Electoral College 131 electoral votes needed to win
Nominee John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Alliance Adams-Clay Republican Jacksonian Home state Massachusetts Tennessee Running mate John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun Electoral vote 84 99 Delegate count 13 7 States carried 7 11 Popular vote 113,122[a] 151,271[a] Percentage 30.9% 41.4%

Notice the difference in the number of popular votes cast between 1824 and 1928264,303 in popular votes in 1824 compared to 1.,145 788 in 1832.There were 881,485 more voters in 1832 than in 1824

This was when the "Winner Take All" method of allocation electoral votes began and when our Republic became a Democracy.

← 1824 October 31 – December 2, 1828 1832 →
261 members of the Electoral College 131 electoral votes needed to win
Nominee Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams Party Democratic National Republican Alliance Nullifier Anti-Masonic[2][3] Home state Tennessee Massachusetts Running mate John C. Calhoun Richard Rush Electoral vote 178 83 States carried 15 9 Popular vote 638,348[4] 507,440 Percentage 55.5% 44.0%