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Mark Small's Blog – March 2018 Archive (4)

"Winner takes all" selection of electors violates Indiana's Constitution.

The Electoral College is a vestige of the “Great Compromise” of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, whereby States were apportioned seats in the House of Representatives based on population, but each State - even the smallest - had two (2) seats in the Senate. States in which slavery was allowed benefitted. “Each person in a State, regardless of her or his status, was counted for purposes of apportionment of seats in the House and electoral voes: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be…

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Added by Mark Small on March 27, 2018 at 6:42am — No Comments

How to mitigate "unequal protection" of the Electoral College - Part 1

  The Framers shaped the Constitution on premises that included distrust of, and the need for protections against, democracy and majority rule. The Electoral College was intended, by the Framers of the Constitution, to act as a deliberative body and protect the nation from a person who was incompetent or corrupt.

The manner by which electoral votes were apportioned to each State was based on the Great Compromise, whereby each State received a number of seats in the House of…

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Added by Mark Small on March 25, 2018 at 5:30am — No Comments

Constitutional convention = death of this country.

A constitutional convention - a gathering of delegates to re-write our Constitution - would be a disaster for rights of Americans and of people.

1) No matter what “limits” might be set, once convened, delegates could write whatever they want. Former United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote, in 1983: “...there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress…

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Added by Mark Small on March 14, 2018 at 6:53am — No Comments

How much did Putin pay North Korea?

Putin must have paid North Korea’s leader a bundle.

When all other reasons are eliminated, the reason left—no matter how bizarre—is the one that explains something. That is a sort of razor of logic, similar to the “haircuts” Donald Trump, the current occupant of the Oval Office, used to give to creditors when he was a Brilliant Titan - or maybe “Trojan” would be a better prophylactic term - of Industry.

DT did nothing to elicit “peace talks” with North Korea. DT slung bellicose,…

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Added by Mark Small on March 10, 2018 at 9:39pm — No Comments

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