The beginning of the constitution states that “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The only thing wrong with this is that we the people don’t even elect our own president and vice president.
The system that America uses to elect its president is the electoral college. Americans do not vote directly for president. They vote for slates of electors in each state. Collectively, the electors are called the Electoral College. Each state gets a number of electors equal to its membership in the House and Senate. (The District of Columbia gets three.)
A problem with this is that all the votes are not used to decide the president. In the electoral college all the votes from that state just go to the one candidate. Lets say that there are 50 people in a state and 27 vote for the democratic candidate and 23 vote for the republican candidate, all the electoral votes for this state will go to the democratic candidate and the people that voted for the republican will never be heard.
These electors don’t have to vote with the popular decision in the state either. Actually most of the time the electors will stay loyal with their party. This is because of political parties. Many people that are in politics will not go against their political parties because that will really hurt their image to the people that are in their party. This video from Saturday Night Live shows how the two parties don’t really agree on any of the same topics and how they are always against each other. Sarah Palin a Republican and Hilary Clinton a Democrat are represented in this skit. The skit starts out showing how these two big political figures have none of the same ideas or beliefs. So this shows how these elector will not be willing to go against their party when voting for president.
So the statement “we the people” doesn’t really mean much when you are electing a president and vice president. This is because the electoral college doesn’t allow the people to be able to truly vote on who they want to lead the country. This has a lot to do also with political parties also. How is a country suppose to run when it is divided. Both political parties and the electoral college should be stopped so that this country can move on to the best that it can be.
The Political Landscape
The beginning of the constitution states that “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The only thing wrong with this is that we the people don’t even elect our own president and vice president.
The system that America uses to elect its president is the electoral college. Americans do not vote directly for president. They vote for
A problem with this is that all the votes are not used to decide the president. In the electoral college all the votes from that state just go to the one candidate. Lets say that there are 50 people in a state and 27 vote for the democratic candidate and 23 vote for the republican candidate, all the electoral votes for this state will go to the democratic candidate and the people that voted for the republican will never be heard.
These electors don’t have to vote with the popular decision in the state either. Actually most of the time the electors will stay loyal with their party. This is because of political parties. Many people that are in politics will not go against their political parties because that will really hurt their image to the people that are in their party. This video from Saturday Night Live shows how the two parties don’t really agree on any of the same topics and how they are always against each other. Sarah Palin a Republican and Hilary Clinton a Democrat are represented in this skit. The skit starts out showing how these two big political figures have none of the same ideas or beliefs. So this shows how these elector will not be willing to go against their party when voting for president.
So the statement “we the people” doesn’t really mean much when you are electing a president and vice president. This is because the electoral college doesn’t allow the people to be able to truly vote on who they want to lead the country. This has a lot to do also with political parties also. How is a country suppose to run when it is divided. Both political parties and the electoral college should be stopped so that this country can move on to the best that it can be.