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The Electoral College: Keep or Replace? A Soho Forum Debate
The Soho Forum Debates
The Importance of a Popular Vote
The current system we have which overlords some states and creates various kinds of firewalls between one state and another. The Bill of Rights in Part was designed to overcome or to offset that sort of situation but certainly for the last 80 years or so if you look at the history of the Supreme Court, there's scant protection with respect to economic liberties. There is a great danger in deciding that we will favor the popular vote in any given election because you then have to do it for every particular election. I think the things that turn out to be very attractive say like proportionate representation can create a situation where once they're in electoral office it creates a kind of political instability.
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