A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.
With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.
The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.
While you are not totally wrong, we are talking about a time that was the beginning of transcendentalism. High minded ideals were very much at the forefront of what was going on. Even if it was being limited to white land owners.
I’m not talking about a separation of power between the states and the federal government. I’m talking about the difference between the states and the people. There isn’t supposed to be a separation of power between the state and federal government, just things that are one’s responsibility and things that are the other. The federal government was created by the states for the states. They specified what they wanted to Federalize and what they didn’t. I think at this point the question becomes a lot more does the framework created by white land owners in the original 13 states have any bearing on modern reality in 50 states plus dozens of Indian nations plus several territories plus DC.