What is the Electoral College? Is it another way for the government to control how the American people’s voice can be heard? Or is it another way to protect us from the person who deserves to be president? “The Electoral College is a body of representatives, which formally elects the president and vice president of the United States”(Webster Dictionary). In recent elections, the electoral college who has ignored who the American people voted for, for the presidential election and just focus on if one candidate gets two hundred seventy electoral votes. Only five times in our history the electoral college triumphs the popular with Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1824, Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Grover Cleveland and
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As Ilya Ehrenburg said, freedom of speech is something wonderful to have in this life. It is something that a U.S citizen has a right to have. The Electoral College in a way is taking our freedom of speech by deciding who the United States president by just looking at the Electoral Colleges elector votes. As Jeff Jarvis once said, “The idea of speech should be controlled to limit itself offensive to the principles of free, open, and modern society.” (Jarvis). What he means by this is freedom of speech should limit them mostly by our society which includes who we decide to lead us as a country. Freedom of speech is a great way to let the government know how you are feeling about the government or society. It also lets lem know how you are as a person like being religious, open minded, and etc.Voting is one of the ways to let them know how you feel about recent government changes and to help us pick the correct leader of the free world without any of our politicians input on it. This makes the American people feel like they are important to this country and should be excited to vote. With the college only focusing on the electors votes, it feels like they are ignoring and not respecting the American people’s …show more content…
With freedom of speech it lets society know which leader we want to lead us, not respecting the American people’s voice it says how we all can make a difference, and finally there might be corrupt politicians that are not capable making the right choice because of bias decisions . In order for us to make a difference here, we need to get our voice out to the public. Now, because of what recently happen to the presidential election, we are now facing a leader who is sexist, racist, a narcissist, and a bombastic. We need to stick together more than ever. So now think to yourself, will you be one of the people that help makes a
As Ilya Ehrenburg said, freedom of speech is something wonderful to have in this life. It is something that a U.S citizen has a right to have. The Electoral College in a way is taking our freedom of speech by deciding who the United States president by just looking at the Electoral Colleges elector votes. As Jeff Jarvis once said, “The idea of speech should be controlled to limit itself offensive to the principles of free, open, and modern society.” (Jarvis). What he means by this is freedom of speech should limit them mostly by our society which includes who we decide to lead us as a country. Freedom of speech is a great way to let the government know how you are feeling about the government or society. It also lets lem know how you are as a person like being religious, open minded, and etc.Voting is one of the ways to let them know how you feel about recent government changes and to help us pick the correct leader of the free world without any of our politicians input on it. This makes the American people feel like they are important to this country and should be excited to vote. With the college only focusing on the electors votes, it feels like they are ignoring and not respecting the American people’s …show more content…
With freedom of speech it lets society know which leader we want to lead us, not respecting the American people’s voice it says how we all can make a difference, and finally there might be corrupt politicians that are not capable making the right choice because of bias decisions . In order for us to make a difference here, we need to get our voice out to the public. Now, because of what recently happen to the presidential election, we are now facing a leader who is sexist, racist, a narcissist, and a bombastic. We need to stick together more than ever. So now think to yourself, will you be one of the people that help makes a