| Nem said: I am totally in favor of that. In Portugal for example, the President doesn't have any executive power and calls forth the leader of the most voted party to form government. This government won't pass without having a majority in the parliment, wich often means alliances must be made. In the US model, these consensus are not necessary because it's either one party or the other that has the majority in the senate and the president actually has executive powers. Though with that said, i was having issue with the electoral college system wich is think is very anti-democratic. When electing someone in democracy, every vote has to weight the same regardless of who you are and where in the country you live (aslong as old enough). That is what i find most offensive about the system. Just because i don't consider it democratic. |
Anti-democratic is ideal, no group should have too much power in a representative republic and the electoral college is a good fail-safe for preventing voter fraud since swing states are monitored much more heavily ... (Just because the rest of the americans don't fall inline with the either of the coastal elites such as California or New York doesn't make them any less american.)
Can a majoritarian decmoracy be trusted to hold the integrity of the judiciary branch such as holding up a precedent without having feelings sway court rulings ? No ...
Can a majoritarian democracy be directly trusted with legislative powers where they have the ability to change national laws and the very consititution itself to protect the rights of the minority ? Absolutely not ...
Do you try to renege on the state legislatures of their right to elect executive powers as granted originally by all other state legislatures ? Then how can a union be justified at that point if we don't want to if we don't respect the other member's states consensus ?
A government needs to be consistent (need a constitution and a court), stable (keep feelings of the masses at bay), decentralized (respect notions of federalism) and seperated (have distinct branches) in order for a sovereign nation to prosper in peace and I believe the founding fathers understood tyranny better than anyone else ... (afterall they were the ones who designed our very institutions to indefinitely last)
It is not by accident that all states have equal constitutional powers to ratify amendments ...
