Electoral College DBQ Essay

Most problems in life go unsolved. They go unsolved due to the lack of initiative and agreement of a group. The same goes for the constitution; we don’t agree on changing it, even though it’s needed. I believe the constitution doesn’t work and needs to be changed, the electoral college is out of date, gun control needs to be further enforced, and the difficulty to amend the constitution needs to be lessened. It isn’t just a disservice to some people not to change the constitution, it’s a disservice to our entire nation. The electoral college has been around for over two hundred years. It’s incredible that we haven’t changed it, even though it’s needed. However, it just doesn’t work. For instance, in 2016 Hillary Clinton won the popular …show more content…
And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each”(Document B). Later, the constitution finishes describing the electoral college process by stating, “The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President”(Document B). This process in better words states that the votes that we cast in our own state, is merely just suggesting a group of electors. Usually, those electors vote for their state’s majority in the popular vote. It's a winner takes all situation in the states. The more appropriate representation for our country is to adjust the electoral college process. They should change it so that if one state, let’s say Texas, votes sixty-forty in their state (60% of the votes being Republican;40 being Democrat), then the electoral college vote per that state go …show more content…
Amending the constitution is too difficult, and prevents change from happening. Our country has grown so much, yet “In the 220-plus years since the ratification of the Constitution, more than 11,000 amendments have been proposed, but only 27 have been enacted. The first 10 amendments were added immediately to appease critics of the Constitution during the ratification debates”(Slate.com). This is because the constitution is wrote as, “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions”(Document C). You need a two-thirds majority in the house and senate, or a convention can be called, by ⅔ of state. Then, if all goes through, to get a change in the constitution requires ¾ of the states to agree. Right now, you need a supermajority twice, which makes it almost impossible to create change. Do you know how hard it is to get our country to agree on things like that twice? Almost impossible. So from 1827 to present, we’ve had 12 amendments passed. A lot has changed from 1827 to now, a lot more than 12 amendments worth. I know the country is

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