We Are A Federal Representative Democratic Republic

The President Is Elected by the Electoral College

In response to Bob Basso’s, We the People Stimulus Package

What he said was very instructive but for 2 extraordinarily critical points that misunderstand the very basis of what the constructors of our Constitution intended. Firstly, we are NOT a "nation of laws"; that is a pure republic, as are Iran, Switzerland, etc. We are a Representative Democratic Republic by design, as Thomas Jefferson & James Madison intended. We are a nation of the people, who make the laws, amend the laws, abolish the laws, enforce the laws, etc. The phrase, "nation of laws" was simply coined by a law professor at Harvard Law School, Lawrence Tribe, and it seems to have stuck, as the liberals and loose constitutional constructionists would have it. "If you repeat something enough times, people then begin to believe it", as Hitler's communications director stated. Secondly, and in my opinion, most importantly, the electoral college, as designed by our forefathers is the essence of electing our presidents, and preserves this Democratic Republic so that we do not become a Republic, as this stupid national democratic party organization would love it to be. The states elect the presidents, as they do their representatives and their senators. U.S. Senators were elected/appointed by their state legislators from the beginning and it was not until recently, historically, that they were elected by a vote of the citizenry. In my opinion, that is why they are no longer beholden to their states/citizenry but represent national special interests above & beyond all else. The most important reason we want to maintain the Electoral College is to prevent the decadent city/states like New York, Illinois [Chicago], California [LA & SF] from controlling the election process. For instance, under the present system, Wyoming, Hawaii, Oklahoma for instance has a vote, winner take all, equal to that of any other state, NY, CA, IL or otherwise. Otherwise, you would never see a moderate to conservative elected as president again. Never! States which try to split the vote rather than “winners take all” are in violation of the spirit of the Constitution, if not the essence of it. To use a cliché, "the tail would be wagging the dog." Otherwise, what he says is very good. Thank you for sending it to me.