See, even districting becomes a huge partisan issue with each side trying to benefit from the way the lines are drawn.
I think we would still be a republic, even if we had to redefine the executive some. The legislature still works the same way it always has, I mean, I wrote about some changes I think would be neat, but they won't ever happen. Hell none of this will, probably. The president is the chief executive, and commander in chief of the FEDERAL government. The representatives we have, are based and biased toward theirs states, but this not true of the president. At least on paper. I don't see why someone would have a problem with a direct popular election for president, still just don't get it. I mean, the system we have now is cumbersome, as we have seen it is very easy to distort the truth of a presidential election, to bend the rules to suit one party over the other. There are always problems drawing up districts based on race, income, and political affiliation. Here's how I see. The constitution has an amendment process built into it. The framers knew they weren't infallible. They knew as time went on there would need to be tweaks. The way we handle elections needs to be tweaked I think, financing, districts, parties, the electoral college, the whole nine. Honestly I think there are enough tweaks (clarification on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th amendments, executive and legislative branch changes) that the case could be made for the need for another constitutional convention, to clarify these issues, and get us back on track to smaller, freer, government. -- Timothy Heald Analyst, Architect, Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: 202-228-8372 C: 703-300-3911 -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:50 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Seems the administration lied about the trailers too My suggestion is to keep the system we have. I like the idea of a republic; one where the states elect the president. I think there are ways to fix things, like tie electors to their district as opposed to their state. Some states already do this. But it just seems to me that without a major overhaul and reclassification of the office of the President, you can't really change the system. > -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:52 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Seems the administration lied about the trailers too > > Ok, > > So your suggestion? > > People with far bigger brains than I can't figure out campaign finance > reform. We are kind of far a field from the original point I was > making, which was that the electoral system is fundamentally flawed. > > -- > Timothy Heald > Analyst, Architect, Developer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: 202-228-8372 > C: 703-300-3911 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:204141 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
