There is still some opposition to the Electoral College. Some people are advocating that it be done away with and we go to a strictly popular vote. That would move us more towards Democracy. If you’ve read any of the words of the Founding Fathers, you’ll remember that they taught that a Democracy is one of the worst types of government. It eventually results in the control by the masses and tyranny.

Be reminded that the U.S. Constitution was an agreement between the new States. It replaced the Articles of Confederation which gave basically no power to the federal government. The State representatives were very diligent in discussing the method of electing a new President over their “more perfect Union.” George Washing allowed much discussion and at least 55 different votes on the method. That method was accepted by the individual states.

You see, the smaller states were so very worried that they would certainly be overrun and overruled by the more populous states. Today if elections were held with the popular vote, Wyoming, Montana, Rhode Island, and other small population states would be left out of the whole process. They wouldn’t matter. Finally the Founding Fathers decided on the method that resulted in the Electoral College. This college is represented by the same number of Members of Congress from each state.

You know that means that each state has 2 Senators. And each state has a number of representative in the House of Representatives as decided by population. They, the Founding Fathers thought this was a very good, reasonable and workable compromise. They were still worried about a Monarchy and about a Democracy. So when the Agreement was finally reached, Benjamin Franklin, the oldest and wisest member of the Constitutional Convention went forward to sign the document, and he wept as his placed his name on that monumental Agreement.

As Franklin left the Convention a lady asked him “Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have, a monarchy or a republic.” Notice she didn’t ask if we had a democracy. Ben proudly but advisedly answered “A Republic—if you can keep it.”

I, for one, think we should keep it!!