According to the Missouri Election Board in Jackson County, “..We end up with two large, pragmatic political parties which tend to the center of public opinion rather than dozens of smaller political parties catering to divergent and sometimes extremist views.” In the direct popular vote, many presidents representing minor, regional parties will run, causing problems such as the disruption from an electoral majority. They will represent regional, localized ideas and have small, decentralized platforms. Under the direct popular vote, it allows presidential candidates with localized ideas take office and neglect the need for national appeal. Anybody with a large base of support would be able to win. The overwhelming majority could be from the presidential
The Electoral College also unequally apportions electoral votes due to the significant population increase since it was established. The Electoral College is created by Article II of the Constitution, and is further outlined in the 12th Amendment. As described by Nicholas R Miller, “designing the mode of selecting the President was one of the most difficult tasks that confronted the framers,” (3). In determining how to elect the president, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered three options: appointment by legislature, a direct election by the people, or a hybrid of both. Appointment by legislature was considered, as that was the method most states used to elect the governor; however, delegates feared it would upset the balance of the three branches of government by making the president beholden to congress (Johnson 12-13).
One way in which a President leaves office is if they are not re-elected. The president serves a fixed-term of four years and then faces re-election. If he does not win the election then he will obviously not stay in office, for example Jimmy Carter (77-81) who only served one term and then was defeated by Ronald Reagan in the Presidential election. If the incumbent wins the election then he is President again for again the fixed term of 4 years. However after Roosevelt (33-45) the 22nd amendment (1951) was brought in which limited a President to two terms.
After completing this project, I learned that an electoral college is a group of people that represent a state and they have the responsibility of casting the votes for the election of the president and vice president. Each state has a different amount of electoral votes that go towards the election. If there is a tie, the House of Representatives vote the president and the Senate votes for the vice president. I learned that in order to run for president there are several requirements and steps to do so. First off, you need to be a natural born U.S. citizen, at least 35 years of age, and you must be a U.S. resident for at least 14 years.
Why did Hitler become Chancellor in January 1933? There were many factors to explain why Hitler became Chancellor. They all played their part and in 1933 Hitler become Chancellor although perhaps not as he would have liked. Normally the leader of the party with the most votes in the Reichstag becomes Chancellor. In 1932 Hitler won 37.5 percent of the seats (230 seats) in the Reichstag making the Nazi party the largest in the Reichstag so Hitler should have been Chancellor.
The leader of the most powerful elected party would usually then be appointed Chancellor by the President. The Chancellor could then choose his own Cabinet from the elected deputies. The Chancellor and the Cabinet answered to the Reichstag, so they were reliant upon the support of the majority of deputies. The President could dismiss the Chancellor and either call new elections or appoint an alternative Chancellor. The Reichstag debated issues and voted on proposed laws.
One of the most influential sources of political power in a country is obtained by influencing policy agendas (Wood and Peake, 1998). Acquiring a status in the congressional agenda is viewed as a necessary overture in the process of agenda setting. Political power is attained by the president if his proposals are included in agenda setting. This is a popular strategy because these are the issues that receive a lot of attention from lawmaker. Therefore, at the centre of presidents’ political strategies, for raising support for their legislative proposals, is by obtaining compelling status in the congressional agenda.
There were many factors to explain why Hitler became Chancellor. They all played their part and in 1933 Hitler become Chancellor but not as he had first planned. After the failure that was the Munich Putsch of 1923, Hitler realised that things needed to be done differently. Normally the leader of the party with the most votes in the Reichstag becomes Chancellor. In 1932 Hitler won 230 seats in the Reichstag, making the Nazi party the largest in the Reichstag automatically making Hitler Chancellor.
The Electoral College is a voting system that was established by the framers in 1787, in which it was decided that presidential candidates would be voted on by each state's electors, whom would cast their ballots in retrospect to the victor in their state. Originally established to grant smaller states power and to unite what was an America wary of one another, this system has been in place for over two centuries, yet still retains these vital cornerstones. It is for these precise reasons, and in the interests of preserving our vital democracy, that the Electoral College must remain intact and without reform, as doing so would rob smaller states of voting influence, whilst also leaving our nation susceptible, in putting incapable and mediocre candidates into office. When the foundations of the Electoral College were originally laid down, almost instantly, the main
The Electoral College is the system used in the United States to elect the President. A candidate must receive 270 out of 538 electoral votes to win the Presidency. Each state has a specific number of electors, which is determined by the total number of Senators and Representatives for the state; for example California has 53 Representatives and two Senators for a total of 55 electoral votes. The popular vote in each state receives all the electoral votes, except for the state of Maine and Nebraska, which both divide their electoral votes according to popular vote. Without knowing the Founding Fathers’ intention when establishing the Electoral College, it is difficult to understand why the popular vote was not acceptable.