Pros And Cons Of Amending The Constitution

Amending the Constitution If given an opportunity to introduce an amendment to the Constitution, I would use it to reform America’s use of the electoral college in presidential elections. As it currently stands, the electoral college allocates an assigned vote value to each of America’s fifty states. A relatively highly populated state most often indicates a relatively high number of votes in the electoral college. In recent years, many citizens and legislators have called for the complete abolition of the electoral college. This may seem like an appropriate action for a wide variety of reasons, but actually implementing an entirely new electoral system would undoubtedly be an overly complicated process with countless negative repercussions. Instead, I propose a reformation of the already established electoral college and how it operates. Instead of awarding each state’s winning candidate with all of the state’s electoral votes, these points should be given

For voters in our nation’s “safe” states - most notably Texas and California - this change in our Constitution would come with a heightened sense of importance and responsibility in the presidential voting process. Under these new electoral principles, Democrats in predominantly Republican states, and vice versa, now have an opportunity to earn at least a share of their state’s electoral votes for their favored candidate. Instead of voters in the minority party neglecting to vote because of their low confidence in their candidate’s chances, members of all available parties will make the effort to represent their party and bring at least a portion of their states’ votes to their desired candidate. This new culture of involved, efficate voters will be a primary factor in the consequent reform of presidential political campaign in