“Federalist No. 68 was written by Alexander Hamilton, and he’s a favorite of the left, I thought, as they try to pour the progressive ideology in any Founder – and he’s one of them. And he was trying to persuade the people in New York to put pressure on their representatives in Albany and in New York to support the Constitution.
“‘THE mode of appointment of the Chief Magistrate of the United
States[, meaning the president] is almost the only part of the system,
of any consequence, which has escaped without severe censure, or which
has received the slightest mark of approbation from its opponents. The
most plausible of these, who has appeared in print, has even deigned to
admit that the election of the President is pretty well guarded. I
venture somewhat further, and hesitate not to affirm, that if the manner
of it be not perfect, it is at least excellent. It unites in an eminent
degree all the advantages, the union of which was to be wished for.’
“They feared the mob. They feared the mob. They feared that a faction, a mob could take over the government as they had in France, and that’s why, among other reasons, we have the Electoral College. And now look at the mob – the same mob, if you will, 200 and some years later.”
“They feared the mob. They feared the mob. They feared that a faction, a mob could take over the government as they had in France, and that’s why, among other reasons, we have the Electoral College. And now look at the mob – the same mob, if you will, 200 and some years later.”
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