At 15:27 17-12-00 -0500, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
> > First, the EU is not "the rest of the world". Second, your
> > current system
> > was introduced long ago by the British -- and even they have by now
> > abandonded that system because it was outdated and undemocratic.
>
>Jeroen, I have no idea where you got that idea, but it's certainly not
>the case.
I'm working from my memories of History classes. Those classes were quite
long ago, so I admit there is a possibility that I'm not entirely correct
here. I will leave it to our UK members to shed a light on this.
>The Electoral College was an entirely original invention on
>the part of the Founding Fathers
Working from abovementioned memories again: weren't the FF's British
themselves?
Jeroen
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