ELECTORAL COLLEGE BAD FOR MODERN DEMOCRACY. History Essay (Essay Sample)

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Electoral College Bad for Modern Democracy
Thesis: Given the reasons for its undemocratic structure, the electoral college seems to have outlived its intended purpose and has become irrelevant in modern-day democracy.
* Introduction
Ї The debate on the relevancy of electoral college
Ї Critical issues with the electoral college system
* Inapplicable purpose of the electoral college
Ї How the electoral college was founded and its intended purpose
Ї The undemocratic and vain functional purpose of the electoral college
* Electoral college undermining majority rule
Ї Scenarios when the national popular vote lost
Ї Election campaigns focus only on swing states.
* Unequal weight on small states
Ї Unproportionally more weight per capita to small states
Ї Creating political inequality among the states
* Winner-take-all approach unfair to the minority voters
Ї The unrepresented minority in electoral distribution votes
Ї Inflaming of divisions within the states
* High possibility of a tie leading to a constitutional crisis
Ї Statistical possibility of undetermined winner with different state configurations
Ї Probability of the development of a complex constitutional crisis
* Conclusion
* Annotated bibliography
The 2016 presidential election that lead to the election of Donald Trump was the fifth time in American history that the winner of the popular vote lost the electoral college votes. The results intensified the debate on whether the electoral college system of electing the country's president is still relevant at the present times. Many political scholars and political scientists have made arguments that described the plan as undemocratic, complicated, and dangerous. This paper outlines the purpose of the electoral college as intended by the founding fathers and how the system has evolved over the years before expounding the contentious issues that make it unsuitable in modern times.