Bill Thompson

But the 17th Amendment was a way that a lot of that power went from the state level and the state legislatures.

And now to become the president, they want to do a popular vote.

And under a popular vote, you would just have to campaign in New York and L.A.

You would get the popular vote out of the likely voting people and now the rest of the country is not.

And that would be another – you hear all these people saying we need a popular vote.

We can't have the electoral college.

We can't have all of these things.

Everything needs to be – pure democracy allows 51 percent to rule 49 percent.

And that was another thing the founders were working fervently to get away from.

And that's why we had an electoral college.

And it's actually quite beautiful when you actually read about it and examine it.

It's why we had the state Senate and state legislatures.

And this is why we had the house.

You had all levels of the things of government that the founders cared about being represented in this body politic.

And it was a beautiful thing.

And I could go on for 15 more things about that.

I won't do it for the sake of your listeners because I doubt this is what they wanted to do.

But similar things happened with the Supreme Court Marbury v. Madison and allowing the Supreme Court to have judicial review.

That was never a thing that was in the Constitution in the Supreme Court.

If you like the Supreme Court, being able to have the power to describe everything as being either constitutional or unconstitutional, then you're not ruled by a democracy.