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John Hendrickson, a Reserve Analyst at the Public Interest Institute, wrote a column posted on the blog Caffeinated Thoughts that was critical of the National Popular Vote Plan. The article is titled A Republic, Not a Democracy: A Defense of the Electoral College (http://bit.ly/FQrGdj). The column is designer sunglasses discount based upon the faulty premise that the goal of the National Popular Vote Plan is to obliterate the Electoral College.
The National Popular Vote Plan is an interstate compact, whereby participating states would agree to allocate their electoral votes to the winner of the National Popular Vote. The compact would take effect when enough states (constituting the requisite 270 electoral votes required to win the Presidential election) agree to participate.
The Electoral College will still exist under the Plan. On the Monday following the second Wednesday in the December after the election is held, electors representing each state and the District of Columbia will still cast their Presidential ballots. On January 6, the Vice President will declare the winner to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. This is boss sunglasses the process done now, and this is what will be done after the National Popular Vote Plan has been adopted by enough states to take effect.
Hendrickson is using the concept of the Electoral College and the winner-take-all-system of awarding electors interchangeably. The Founders did not create the Electoral College with the concept of the winner-take-all system in mind. There were many proposals at the Constitutional Convention during the hot summer of 1787. There was a proposal to have the new U.S. Congress choose the President. Another would have the President selected by the Governors of each state. Another would allow a direct election by American voters.
Unable to agree on a method gucci sunglasses on sale for selecting the President, the Founders delegated each state the plenary authority to award their electors. Article ll, Section 1, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution states: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors."