The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

The Electoral College exists, according to the Federalist Papers, in order to account for the opportunity of the tyranny of the majority or factions. It gives us the responsibility of choosing the President and members that are the best for us that prevents from bias opinions on who is chosen. The reason that the Constitution calls for this extra layer, rather than just providing for the direct election of the president, is that it will harm us a whole. James Madison worried about what he called "factions.” Until today, we are afraid of what Madison called, "the tyranny of the majority" – was that a faction could overgrow 50% of our population, at which point could sacrifice the rights of other citizens. As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” "that the office of President will never fall to the lot to not just any man who doesn’t offer these qualifications. He further on argues that the point of the Electoral College is to preserve "the sense of the people," while at the same time ensuring that a

In the Anti-Federalist papers, Republicus argue that it discredits the ability of the people and puts it all in the hands of those delegates who “fully” understand politics to choose. The papers concluded that the right to govern is for the people and the right to determine who laws, or execute them, they believe to continue to have sense enough to discover and detect. The biggest con for the popular vote is that the people may not have a good understanding on who actually is a good qualification for the position. The smaller States will be given no voice in who is President. This goes against the Constitution where it is the States that elect the President. The people in each State has slowly been given a voice in selecting who they want for each State. Because of the popular vote, we loses our voice in governing. Each state, big or small, should have their choice and let their voice be