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The president was to be decided by the majority vote of the country. Period. The idea that you achieve the office by losing the pop vote but win the EC was not the intention.
Martin Diamond, one of the most thoughtful proponents of the Electoral College, accurately described the design as “an anti-states-rights device, a way of keeping the election from state politicians and giving it to the people.”
protections of federalism, today as in the past, are the vitality of state governments, the division of powers between nation and state, and representation in Congress along state lines.The replacement of the Electoral College by a nationwide popular vote wouldthreatennoneofthese
Madison summarized the prevailing sentiment: “The President is to act for the people, not the States.”
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