The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The constitution was conspicuous by its absence


In a comment to their post I wrote,

Conspicuous by its absence from your argument is the perfectly valid constitutional point that the votes of the Electors cannot be bound.

That is, there is no such thing as a faithless Elector.

The point of the EC was to give the power of choosing the president and the VP to the Electors, whose votes can no more be constrained by state legislators than can those of senators (originally chosen by those same legislatures) or representatives.

In our republic, neither the people nor the states choose the president and VP.

The Electors do.

And nobody else.

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