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Abolition of the Electoral College Argument

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in a variety of national elections, thereby electing the persons who will represent them and the persons who will lead this nation. Right? Wrong, that is not true. The Constitution  does not guarantee the right to vote for the president or the vice-president (Raskin, 2001). Interestingly, there are at least 135 other nations whose constitutions explicitly give all citizens the  right to vote as well as the right to be represented at all governmental levels. In the United States, however, the right to vote and to have representation is provided  at the state level (Raskin, 2001). These offices are elected by a body in each state called the electoral college. The fact that the Constitution of the United States does  not state that the people of the nation will elect those who will serve in the two highest political position in the country became abundantly clear in the last presidential  election. The electoral college process was designed by the nations founding fathers but this process has clearly outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. To understand why this electoral  process should be abolished, i.e., eliminated, one must first understand how the electoral college came to be in the first place. The nations founding fathers faced a serious challenge when  they tried to determine how the president would be elected (Kimberling, nd). At the time, the nation: 1. Was comprised of thirteen small and large states that were very protective  of their own powers and suspicious a any form of central national government (Kimberling, nd). 2. The nation has four million people that were dispersed and spread over a thousand  miles of Atlantic seaboard and their connection with each other was limited due to communication and transportation (Kimberling, nd). That meant that national campaigns were physically and logistically impossible