Yes, however the amendment process ensures that the electoral college will remain.
Amendments must be ratified by the states, and there are enough small states that believe the electoral college helps them, that they won't want to change it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:13 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Seems the administration lied about the trailers too > > 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:204147 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=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
