Best I can tell, Billy's assessment is correct. Then again, I've never known a Liberal to show concern for our founder's original intent. And I've never known a Liberal show concern for a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Well, except in a case like this when it' would benefit their party.
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Originally posted by: billryan
Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution provided the original plan by which the electors chose the president and vice president. Under the original plan, the candidate who received a majority of votes from the electors would become president; the candidate receiving the second most votes would become vice president.
From the Federalist Papers.
The original plan of the Electoral College was based upon several assumptions and anticipations of the Framers of the Constitution:[27]
Individual electors would be elected by citizens on a district-by-district basis.[28]
Each presidential elector would exercise independent judgment when voting.
Candidates would not pair together on the same ticket with assumed placements toward each office of president and vice president.
The system as designed would rarely produce a winner, thus sending the election to Congress.
Unless,of course, Fritz knows more about the intent of the EC than James Madison,James Monroe and Alexander Hamilton. The men who actually designed it.
