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A Constitutional Lesson from our Southern Neighbor

The disputed election of 2000 once again focused attention on one of the founding fathers most brilliant and yet maligned creations, the Electoral College. Most Americans, even those who do not wish to change the system, consider it more a relic of another time than a brilliant invention whose value has not lessened with the passage of two hundred years. Yet, as I will show, whatever its faults and short-comings, the Electoral College protects us for dangers far greater than even its most exaggerated opponents can claim. Our neighbor to the south, Mexico has recently given us an object lesson in the importance and value of our Electoral College. Read the rest of this entry »