One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Presidential election process is the electoral college. ... Each of these electors has the power of one vote to cast for the next President and Vice President of the United States. While the public election process is heavily pushed, the real power of election is held by these electors. ... In this aspect, the people retain the power of the vote due to the fact that they elect the representatives to speak for their needs in the political setting. ... The college was put in place to balance out the turmoil and assure the best choice for Presidential...

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However, despite the American ethos of democracy the Presidential election is not democratic. ... The source of this degradation is the Electoral College, a perversion of federalism (the division of power between State and National government). The Electoral College nullifies the value of the democratic popular vote by conferring the power of the presidency to the candidate who accumulates 270 of the State apportioned Electoral College votes. ... Thus encouraging them to abstain from voting based on the premise that their vote does not receive its due apportionment of Electoral College votes a...

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This was a time of considerable rivalry and distrust among the states, a lack of a national communication system, and bad memories of abuse of executive power. ... The Electoral College stands in the way of a democratic presidential election. ... Finally, if the Electoral College was to deadlock, and no presidential candidate held a majority, then the election would pass to the House of Representatives. ... Thus, it would be near impossible to pass an amendment to take away power from the smaller states and give that power to a direct popular election, but this is not the only way to change...

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The democratic principle, however, stipulates that the people are the source of the power, not political parties, benefactors, patrons, or even their representatives, who could simply go unelected once their terms end and the dissatisfied people are ready for change. ... Even when the popular vote, where the citizens of the nation directly express their preferences for candidates to hold presidential office, indicates one thing (the democratic principle), the Electoral College could easily prove to support federalism more than democracy. One of the avenues of expression and attempts at policy ...

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So the aim of "Separation of Powers" is not to provide separate institutions sharing power, but each branch is give a specific kind of power. ... Such that a Presidential veto only improves the quality of the legislation. ...

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The implied power would also make an economic inequality that Jefferson strongly disagreed with. ... After that, Jefferson was a presidential candidate for the Republicans while "Hamilton, not being a native-born American, could never be a candidate for president, but he would play an active role in the election of candidates for that high post.... Despite the sharp disagreement and conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson, Hamilton supported Thomas Jefferson in the election for the presidential nomination towards Aaron Burr. ... However, Hamilton responded to that Presidential decisions i...

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The popularity vote seems to not play any factor in our presidential election. ... Many people feel that the "popular election of presidents would work a diminution of the political power of racial and other minority groups in the nation's urban centers." ... Produces great inequalities in voting power among the national electorate contain a contingency election provision that is not only unrepresentative. ... Strangely enough, "the presidential nominees tend to come from big states and tend to run on platforms likely to appeal to interest groups that cluster there." ...

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He also "issued the first presidential veto" in 1790. Washington claimed to have "no lust for power," however his entire life, from commanding general to president, put him in a world where he possessed great power. Ultimately, Washington had a major impact on the United States not only in presidential procedures, but also winning our freedom. ...

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Although these rules can be--and often are--waived, the strong presence of rules means that representatives do not wield a lot of individual power on the floor; they tend to have much more influence on legislation at the committee level. ... This gives individual senators a great deal of power to shape or stop legislation at any stage in the process. ... The Senate's job is to advise and consent to all presidential appointments, overlook the ratification of treaties, and they also conduct impeachment trials. ...

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During the strike, Cesar Chavez used media power very well to against farm owner, they create their own newspaper, spread it to all the farmer to gain the Mexican American farmer's support and they demonstration to attract the attention from society, without media Cesar Chavez can't attract the attention from society and gather all the Mexican American farm workers. ... " And in 1998, Fred Korematsu get the Presidential Medal of Freedom for that he did. ... His action can effect American culture so fast also was credited with media power, after he start play in America Major Le...

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The executive branch did not always contain the power that it does today. ... In fact, the executive branch still does not have as much power compared to legislative and judicial branches. ... He won four consecutive presidential elections and died three months into his fourth term. ... The president's power has expanded but not in the way that most people believe. There has been no new legislation that states an expansion of power. ...

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The second was part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states. ... They feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power. ... Basically the Electoral College was created because of the lack in confidence in the American people and small states refusal to any plan that would not give them comparable power with the large states. ... If no president wins the majority of the electoral votes, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution states the presidential election is to be decided by the House of Representatives. ...

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