The electoral college is in trouble

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18. A RE-CONSTITIONAL Convention......

The oft blessed and accursed founders left us with a republic (''if we could keep it'')Benjamin Franklin muttered to a lady at the door to convention hall who had asked:

"What kind of a government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?"

"A republic, Madam - if you can keep it".

There was trouble from the start.

The document designing the new republic, failed to preface with a Declaration of Rights, which James Madison, the leader pf the Constitutional effort designed to allegedly "repair" the severely inadequately designed Confederation articles, promising to complete and append them them to the completed proposed new Constitution.

There was little effort to repair anything. It was time to create a new form of government.

A republic, powered directly from, for and by the people, which they could accept or change at will, unfettered by ancient traditional guidances and pressures of historical governances and failures.

The amendment process we are left with is useless. It is time to complete the process started in 1787 and to reconstitute and repair what can be or start over again carefully avoiding the same pitfalls driven by the political parties and ambitions that caused the present failures that prevent fulfillment of the dream of efficient and rewarding self-government.