In The United States, do citizens have the ability to have a vote in the elections of the president and other significant leaders. It may not have been clearly laid out in the constitution, because it did contain gaps and needed to be amended here and there, however it can changed to incorporate new amendments. Specifically on the unclearity on how the elections should proceed between the nationalists and the states' right advocates.
It was during the constitutional convention that the framers had to decide how much power they could entrust the people of the United States with, and how much should be controlled by each representative. One problem you deal with in deciding what to do is remember the coordination problems. When there are larger groups of voters, coordination can become an issue, so it's easier to leave it up to the represenatives of the state. So given what choices there were they decided to have congress make the laws, and in turn they would be selected directly by the people. So now this created another new dilemma the framers had to decide how to choose president. There was basically three ways to elect the president: congress, citizens, or electors. This became known as the Great Comprise to give favorable outcomes to both the nationalists and the states' right advocates. Many debates were made over this
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Basically the constitution leaves it up to each of the states to decide how each of the electors are selected. The citizens cast their votes which count for the electors not the presidency, so in sense every citizen is able to voice their opinion on who should become the next president. It is then up to the candidate to get the majority of the votes for the state, if it fails short then it is up to House of Representatives to decide, there is where the citizens voice is no longer