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Questionable Questing

Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
The US would be an even more irreconcileable and dysfunctional state.

Overview of how the constitution lays out federal elections:
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
State legislatures appoint the senate, and the electors ( in a manner of their choosing), who choose the president.
The people elect the House.

Already not that great, but it gets worse.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
See, the House and senate were each separately entitled to set the rules for their election/appointment, and the qualifications needed to be one. They could also each freely and for no reason expel any member with a 2/3 in-house (small h) majority.
As soon as 66% of one branch of congress were in agreement, they could have established themself as the sole legal power block of that branch.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Thus eliminating all meaning of the people electing them, or the state legislatures appointing them.

The only way they didn't fuck up was that they didn't give the electoral college those same powers.

It'd make a fascinating way to design a dysfunctional fictional oligarchy.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
The founding fathers...did not want a coherent nation, nor did they put any trust in the will of the people.
Thankfully, things didn't stay working that way.
They got slightly less worse.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
...also, given that the initial state of the constitution doesn't specify anything about in-state electoral law, the state legislatures themselves wouldn't have necessarily been democratic institutions at all.
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#restorethestuarts
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Well, we didn't exactly have an intelligible, reasonable reason to go so far as declaring independence in the first place. Declaring independence was us refusing to pay for a war we started because we were upset we didn't benefit from it. Just petulant childishness on the part of the colonies.
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The masons were doing a test run for the big operation in france.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Yep. Founding fathers didn't think we could be trusted with it.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
S'why people who talk about strict constructionism and following the framer's intents are...complete fucking morons, in that regard at least.
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