Posted by NCWayne on August 14, 2009 at 12:59:01 from (173.188.168.35):
In Reply to: Sort of posted by Ken Macfarlane on August 14, 2009 at 08:52:53:
The electorial colledge was put in effect because uf the difficulties involved with travel at the time. Remember back then what to us nowdays is only a few hour ride in a motor vehicle would have taken days on horse back or on foot through undeveloped wilderness. Basically it was alot easier for a small, designated group to travel the distances involved and gather to make the decisions based on the thoughts of the people than to expect everyone to be able to travel those distances and do it. Too, like someone else stated, at the time there weren"t alot of "politicians" like we think of today. Most did have their own life outside of the capitol where they lived, farmed, ranced, or whatever for a living and did the politics because they wanted to, not because they were getting paid/bribed/etc to. In other words they lived out in the real world with us "common folk" so they knew what The People wanted and were inclined to follow those thoughts as much as possible. I'm sure that there was still graft and corruption back them but I'd bet it wasn't nearly as bad as it seems to be nowdays.
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