My latest piece in The
Federalist was published on how the Electoral College was intended to be a
representative body, whose members exercise their best judgment in the best
interests of the people and States they represent, in good conscience: http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/08/dont-actually-vote-president-curious-facts-electoral-college/.
My article in The Federalist is similar to my blog post from earlier this month,
but includes a discussion about the formation of the Democratic Party in
protest of the body the Framers established, which led to more democratizing of
American politics and away from representative republicanism.
With the current attempts by
Democrats and liberals to persuade the Electors to vote for the Democratic
nominee because of her lead in the “popular vote,” the piece in the Federalist
is especially timely. They are right to
exercise their freedom to attempt to persuade the Electors, but for the wrong
reasons and candidate, as I explain in the article that there is no such thing
as the popular vote for president because the presidential election is not a
democratic exercise. Instead of
advocating for her on the basis of the Democratic Electors having received the
most votes, the Democrats and liberals, together with principled constitutional
conservatives, should be persuading the Republican Electors, who comprise the
majority of the Electoral College, to vote for anyone else they judge to be fit
to preside over the Union of States, which is a more politically likely way to
fulfill their constitutional duty of exercising this safeguard.
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