Rumpole
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By virtue of the extreme, it does change things.How is that relevant? VA had 20 times the population of GA. Electors were/are divided up proportionally
You like it because it allows the tyranny of the minority.No myopia - you just don't like the system.
Well, the will of the people is not in accordance with the tyranny of the minority.
Yes, the founders were concerned about the tyranny of the majority but they tempered that with
the establishment of the 3 co-equal branches of government and a bicameral legislature of representatives, but at no time did they want minority rule.
"... the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail" --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #22
There is no idea like one whose time as come.
That idea is democracy.