Electors: Stand up for Constitution, stand up to Trump
Electors: Stand up for Constitution, stand up to Trump
BY HARALD FULLER-BENNETT, CONTRIBUTOR - 12/08/16 03:41 PM EST
The Electoral College was written into the Constitution as a check against tyranny. Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers that the College was designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
Hamilton went on to say that the purpose of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen by electors who would “afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder.”
Donald Trump has demonstrated a predilection for tyranny at home and chaos abroad, and the Electoral College is our constitutional safety valve that can keep him out of the White House. The reasons Donald Trump is incapable of fulfilling the duties of the Presidency are myriad.
I will not repeat all, or even most of them, here. Trump’s tweet calling for political protesters — such as those who would burn the American flag — to be jailed and stripped of their citizenship is one such example. As Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) pointed out, “no president is allowed to burn the First Amendment.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/309384-electors-stand-up-for-constitution-stand-up-to-trump