The electoral college was established by our founding fathers in the constitution as a compromise between the election of the President. The Electoral College was spelled out in article 2 of the constitutions in terms of the process on how that works. The electoral College it's an example of an important word. Indirect democracy; in which means that we do not choose our president directly. Why do we do that? The answer is a great example of Federalism, because both the federal and the state government are involved in the process of electing our president. This paper will examine, how the Electoral College works, why we want the states to be part of that Federalists family, advantage and disadvantages of the existing system and, also I will address the most recent election Hillary vs. Trump, where the winner of the popular vote was denied the presidency. For that reason being, we will talk about the possibility of reforming the current system. Going back to the ideas of the Virginia Plan on how we put the constitution together, it stated it the congress is who should choose the president. Kind of like a parliamentary system. Rather than having the kind of winner take all which would cause for our country to become factionalized by the biggest group of …show more content…
Winner takes all means that all votes go to the winner of the state.
The candidate who has the plurality in a state is supposed to get the full electoral votes within the states with clear favorites. In my opinion, I believe; that voters would usually feel that their votes will not count. This dissuade people from voting. The electoral college gives citizens the impression that their votes would not matter after all, causing them to just stay at home rather than going out and participating in the elections. This can discourage people from educating and informing themselves about our country