The Framers [FN1] created checks & balances between branches of the national government to protect against its possible abuses & to prevent any of the branches from becoming too powerful. [FN2] Another worry: republics “afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption.” [FN3] 1/11

This was the context for creating “electors” to select “the Chief Magistrate of the United States.” [FN4] The “choice of the person” so important was “not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose and at the particular conjuncture.” [FN5] 2/11

Phrases “electoral college” & “winner-take-all”? Not in The Constitution. States decide how to select “Electors.” [FN6] In the 1788 election, the first under the Const [FN7] no State chose electors by “winner-take-all.” [FN8] The 1824 election exposed flaws. 3/11

Andrew Jackson, a slave-holding, genocidal populist, won the popular vote but not a majority of electors. The House of Representatives determined Adams the Pres. Art. II, §1. States revamped how they selected electors believing “winner-take-all” gives individual States leverage. 4/11

The deliberative nature of electors has been eliminated. State laws that require an elector to vote for the ticket to which s/he is pledged, have been deemed constitutional. [FN9] That means none of the safeguards that electors were supposed to provide exist. 5/11

POTUS is the only office that is not necessarily won by th ticket with the most votes. [FN10] The notion that the Framers meant for half-a-dozen “swing States” to determine the selection of the Chief Magistrate is absurd. On January 20, if trump is allowed to take the oath, we 6/11

shall have an incompetent, corrupt and foreign-controlled POTUS. Pres Biden is the only person who can protect this country. trump declared an emergency in 2018 to save his own ass. Pres Biden will save our Republic. And: follow Cassie Jackson on Facebook. 7/11

Footnotes:
FN1. The 55 delegates who attended the 1787 Constitutional Convention between May 25 and September 17, 1787. National Archives, “Meet the Framers of the Constitution,” accessed 12/28/24.
FN2. The Federalist, No. 51 (James Madison).
FN3. The Federalist No. 22 (Alexander Hamilton). 8/11

Footnotes:
FN4. The Federalist No. 68 (Alexander Hamilton).
FN5. Id.
FN6. U.S. Const., Art. II, § 1, who “shall meet in their respective states” & vote by ballot for Pres/VP. Amend. XII.
FN7. The 1788 elections were the first elections under The Constitution. 9/11

Footnotes:
FN8. CT, NJ, DE, SC & GA legislature chose; NY missed deadline; RI & NC not ratified; MD & VA pop vote/distr-by-distr; PA & NH pop vote statewide; MA pop vote distr-by-distr w/2 at-large. Peirce and Longley, “The People’s President: The Electoral College in American History and the Direct Vote Alternative,” 1981 ed., p. 33. 10/11

Footnotes:
FN9. Ray v. Blair, 343 U.S. 214, 227 (1952).
FN10. Finkelman, “The Proslavery Origins of the Electoral College,” 23 Cardozo L Rev 1145, 1146 (2002). 11/11