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Americans are derived on the idea that our founding fathers created a free country and society. Cleary expressed in the constitution was the idea of a nation's government being ran by the people and for the people. Now, in the beginning of the twenty-first century, it looks as if the constitution requires to be revised, due to the urbanization of the american culture. In the following essay, I will express my opinion on why the American electoral college voting system should be completely and utterly abolished from the American Government.

In 1787, the Electoral College was created by the founding fathers as a counterbalance against too much democracy and to protect states from encroaching federal power. This was important because of the notion at the time that the Union was a loose assembly of states, which was not referred
to as "The United States," but was instead referred
to as "These United States." But in modern times, the issue is one of population density. If every......

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