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It's because we are the United STATES of America.
by jepj57 11mo ago
It's because we are the United STATES of America.
- atwrk 11mo agoThat's silly, most modern democracies are organized federally and don't have this issue.
- dsr_ 11mo agoMost modern democracies -- that's correct. Only the USA is organized this way. One might consider that later democracies learned from some of our mistakes.
- wat10000 11mo agoA popular vote was seriously considered while drafting the Constitution for these United STATES. The founders didn’t seem to think it was a contradiction. They went with the current solution because it’s hard to count a slave as 3/5ths of a person with a national popular vote.