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Updated: Side Effects of Disbanding the Electoral College

Panting of the signing of the constitution.

Whenever a Presidential election is won in the Electoral College and the winner doesn’t have the majority of the popular vote there are calls to disband the Electoral College. This has happened five times: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 in US history. While on the face, using the popular vote sounds like the way things should be and many wonder why we have the Electoral College. This Article discusses the reasons for the Electoral College and potential Second Order Effects of moving to a popular vote for the US President.

The Effect of Unilateral Legislation

Premise of Article: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be a lesson in what not to do when one has all of the levers of power. The Second Order Effect of the Legislation that this article discusses is the consistent opposition by the Republicans. This article is not about the goodness or badness of …

Effects of Ignoring History and Tradition in the US Senate

The current court is the most conservative since the 1920s. Senator Harry Reid is responsible for this dramatic changes in the Supreme Court. See how ignoring traditions in the Senate set in motion the actions that revoked Roe V. Wade.