Your comment just proves that we are having this debate because many people no longer understand the Greatest System of Representation in the world. Your use of the word Federal shows your lack of knowledge. The General or National Government or the Union is what you refer to as Federal. Alas, we have forgotten,..... and those who forget will lose the inheritence that was given them. The past strikes hardest on the ignorant,...... in the form of a lost future. Federal refers to a group that is combined together as equals, in this case the Union is of the States,... not of you and your friends.
This was all the eventual outworking of the mortal wound that Pres. Lincoln was forced to use inorder to save the Union. The loss of State election of senators was a continuation of the National Government getting rid of true rivals to its power. Why should the National Government be able to say what constitutes a Federal Government? Federal by definition is plural and in what way is the General Government plural? States. It is even worse for some who believe that the Judicial Branch has become a little to upity of late. Thus centralizing the centralized power to the Supreme's.
I'm sure that many people here already know this vital information, right?
I believe if you open your history books a few facts will become clear; close and contested eletions have happened before, they will happen again, you shouldn't think the world will end, the world still goes on even after we lose presidents.
That is quite an interesting applet from the BBC, it is to bad that they didn't go all the way back because they would have seen alot more. Lets start with some interesting stuff that Moderns overlook. There have been 42 presidents, of them 4 died in office and 4 more were killed in office. Consulting my trusty calculator that means 9.52380% of presidents are killed in office in addition to 9.52380% who die naturally. The grand total of 8 dead presidents means that 19.0476% of our presidents have died in office, without counting close calls like Reagan.
The important part that really pertains to your "it's not normal" remark, is that 4 out of 42 or 9.52380% of Presidents are elected without a majority of the electorate. That doesn't count close ones like the 1960 election, when Nixon was advised by some people to contest and ask for a recount against Kennedy.
While were on the subject of votes. Your vote counts less in California than in Montana, get over it. How many other times does Montana really seem that special, unless your refering to a certain quarterback. Big states have certain privilages and small states have theirs, this is known as FEDERALISM. Now I don't claim to be the expert on this matter, but everywhere you look recently people don't know their place. Some of our problems include; states rights verses continued creep of the Federal government, judges over reaching, state attorney generals doing the SEC's job, local school boards being told what to do by national politicans, just recently the Supreme Court began using foreign court rulings as precedent in cases about our constitution.
We all would be better off to read up on FEDERALISM and the Federalist Papers would be a good place to start. Remember that Franklin when ask about what our new government was, responded "A Republic, if we can keep it." Sorry for being so long, just had to get that out into cyberspace.
Pull up a couch and some sugary snacks and let the games begin!;)
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Your comment just proves that we are having this debate because many people no longer understand the Greatest System of Representation in the world. Your use of the word Federal shows your lack of knowledge. The General or National Government or the Union is what you refer to as Federal. Alas, we have forgotten,..... and those who forget will lose the inheritence that was given them. The past strikes hardest on the ignorant,...... in the form of a lost future. Federal refers to a group that is combined together as equals, in this case the Union is of the States,... not of you and your friends. This was all the eventual outworking of the mortal wound that Pres. Lincoln was forced to use inorder to save the Union. The loss of State election of senators was a continuation of the National Government getting rid of true rivals to its power. Why should the National Government be able to say what constitutes a Federal Government? Federal by definition is plural and in what way is the General Government plural? States. It is even worse for some who believe that the Judicial Branch has become a little to upity of late. Thus centralizing the centralized power to the Supreme's. I'm sure that many people here already know this vital information, right?
I believe if you open your history books a few facts will become clear; close and contested eletions have happened before, they will happen again, you shouldn't think the world will end, the world still goes on even after we lose presidents.
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That is quite an interesting applet from the BBC, it is to bad that they didn't go all the way back because they would have seen alot more. Lets start with some interesting stuff that Moderns overlook. There have been 42 presidents, of them 4 died in office and 4 more were killed in office. Consulting my trusty calculator that means 9.52380% of presidents are killed in office in addition to 9.52380% who die naturally. The grand total of 8 dead presidents means that 19.0476% of our presidents have died in office, without counting close calls like Reagan.
The important part that really pertains to your "it's not normal" remark, is that 4 out of 42 or 9.52380% of Presidents are elected without a majority of the electorate. That doesn't count close ones like the 1960 election, when Nixon was advised by some people to contest and ask for a recount against Kennedy.
While were on the subject of votes. Your vote counts less in California than in Montana, get over it. How many other times does Montana really seem that special, unless your refering to a certain quarterback. Big states have certain privilages and small states have theirs, this is known as FEDERALISM. Now I don't claim to be the expert on this matter, but everywhere you look recently people don't know their place. Some of our problems include; states rights verses continued creep of the Federal government, judges over reaching, state attorney generals doing the SEC's job, local school boards being told what to do by national politicans, just recently the Supreme Court began using foreign court rulings as precedent in cases about our constitution.
We all would be better off to read up on FEDERALISM and the Federalist Papers would be a good place to start. Remember that Franklin when ask about what our new government was, responded "A Republic, if we can keep it." Sorry for being so long, just had to get that out into cyberspace.
Pull up a couch and some sugary snacks and let the games begin!