Category: Electoral College

Is the Electoral College fair? This debate has been dividing the opinions of Americans ever since it was first established by the Founding Fathers in 1804. In all honesty, the concept does not make a great deal of sense; the US is the only democracy in the world where the candidate can win the popular…

Everyone would like a fair voting system, that is what the Founding Fathers intended for the United States. This paper is going to go over the type of voting system the United States uses compared to the voting system in Canada. Is one more democratic than the other? Should the United States change the way…

The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors,…

The United States uses a First-Past-The-Post system which is where the candidate achieving the most votes essentially wins, but functions with the Electoral College as a middle ground, this has many advantages and disadvantages. The Electoral College was initially made by the framers to be independent individuals generating the greatest decision for the nation, but…