THE natural response to any election crisis is to find a scapegoat to kick. The obvious scapegoat for America's current mess, it seems, is a 200-year-old institution designed (at least in part) to give a political edge to slave owners: the electoral college....

I. INTRODUCTION On November 1, 2000, a Joint Resolution was introduced in Congress proposing a constitutional amendment to change the Article II system of electing the President and Vice President1 by abolishing the Electoral College.2 Acknowledging the fact that "there have been more...

Provides a history of the American Electoral College and criticisms of its effectiveness and usefulness. Examines the practicality of continuing with the electoral system.

A pro-electoral College essay discussing the various advantages to the United States' system of electing a president.

The elective system of America is a College Electoral System in 1804, during a time when the general public was not considered sufficiently well informed to vote directly for their elected officials directly. This differs from the European electoral processes, from which our system was originally derived.