Andrew C Wang's Blog

The power of Congress and Electoral College

The power of Congress and Electoral College: the legislative branch should restore its power against the executive in fear of Unitary Executive Theory. Both parties want it, and the media craves it, which means the common person craves it, too, because we love stories, heroes (especially if they're charismatic), and their journeys. American political theory is very interesting, and I love it. I think it's the perfect federal system for America given its history and even to this day nothing has really changed in nature. Leftists who hate the Electoral College and want everyone required to vote say that because it would mean Democrats would always win, but the point of representation is that people are representatives. Even during the founding of the country, people knew certain states would have too much leverage and too large of a population that would crush other states' representation. I started re-reading the Federalist Papers, and to think a bicameral legislature and Electoral College was not intended is dumb. The degree of influence may have changed (given all states ended up just voting via popular vote), and the Senate's filibuster gave too much power to the Senate, we have from an underlying theory an amazing political system compared to, say, a parliamentary system.