Summary:
Whether the United States is a true democracy is subject for debate because the Electoral College system prevents simple majorities from automatically winning a presidential election. The history of Electoral College is examined as well as its role in close presidential elections, such as the 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Democracy means rule by the people for the people, but does the government really do what the people want? Are the people even well informed to make proper decisions? To ask this question you have to go back to where democracy started, in Greece. The first democracy in the world was not even a democracy, to vote in Greece you had to be a land-owning male citizen. Thousands of years later when the United States was just a fledgling democracy based upon Jefferson ideas of all men were created equal not much had changed. You still had to be a land-owning male citizen. It took the United States almost 200 years to give all its citizens the right to vote. Even now in modern times, we still have such archaic institutions as the Electoral College is.....
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