Essay On Electoral College

When the Great Compromise was drafted and reached at the constitutional convention of 1787 it was did make sense to allow each state, regardless of population, to have to have an equal number of senators, as this allowed each state to have a voice within the Senate. It also made sense for purpose of legislature that the number of delegates from each state within the House of Representatives was based on each state’s population as it allowed for a semi true representation of the populations within all states. The representation was only semi true as the states only counted select portions of the people within the state, omitting women, Native Americans and only counting 3/5ths of the slave population. As to whether this same calculation is fair for Electoral College purposes, I do not believe that it is. There are

The election results were greatly contested, focusing on the count in Florida, one of the states that has a large number of Electoral College votes, and ultimately, after traveling all the way to the Supreme Court resulted in George W Bush winning the election with a Electoral votes of 271. Accounting for this particular example it seems as though the Electoral College votes were adverse to the majority popular choice, leading to the question, does the Electoral College actually represent the national interest and democracy as it is intended? Throughout our history there has been a plethora of times that the individual that won the popular vote still lost the election and vice versa. Another contention about the fairness of the Electoral College is that when the Great Compromise was conceived its intention was that all states, even the smaller and less populated would have representation within our Federal government. With the Electoral College working the way that it does, it