11-10-2016, 10:15 PM
artyboy Wrote:Hmmmm like everything these days there are too many people for these old fashioned systems to work.Our electoral college system is stupid. It should be straight up popular vote. :S I dont know anyone who say's O yeah its a great system!
Just like the Rights to Arms in the USA was designed to help the shortage of soldiers during and after the US war of Independence. I think the USA population was under a few million people at the time.
Problem is when it allows a president to win I think its less likely that same president will try to eliminate his previous path to the WH.
And gun rights were defined in constitution (the absolute pillar to american freedoms) not to simply arm citizens from foreign powers but domestic ones.
Even our declaration of independence from England
" But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The founding fathers were afraid of over reaching governments and the constitution practically line by line is to protect citizens from their own government.