Life Matters

235: Why The Constitution Has An Electoral College

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Sinopsis

In this episode of Life Matters Brian Johnston explains how the Constitution outlines the method for electing presidents (Article II; and the 12th Amendment).  The media culture, and even many Republicans that have not read the 12th amendment, are pressuring the public and the Trump administration into believing that popular acclaim, particularly when enforced by a media society, is our method of election. Brian takes a deep dive into the methods that are being pursued at this moment by the Trump administration, and the guidance of the 12th amendment.  In particular Brian explains the historical thinking of America’s founders, who in fact, were British patriots. The British Patriot Movement was a political movement of the British Parliament that fought for the voice of every nation within the United Kingdom. It was a movement that began in 1725, fifty years before America’s revolution.  In essence, it was a reaction against the bureaucratic manipulations of Sir Robert Walpole, who surreptitiously created a fo