Let the Electoral College be What the Founders Intended

    Let us reorganize our presidential elections. Let's keep the Electoral College, but let's let each state determine how the electors will be selected. If each state legislature wants to appoint the electors, that is fine. And if, instead, the states want to let the people elect the electors, that is their choice, as well. 

   And, since the states have power to do it the way they want, they can have us vote directly for who we want to be president, not even knowing who the electors are. It is, after all, the states' right to fill the spots on the Electoral College however they see fit. They can water everything down till the Electoral College has little meaning at all, for it is their right

  This is, of course, the way we are doing it. This is what the states have decided they want to do.

   But, I did say, Let's reorganize our presidential elections. It is perfectly legal, the way we are doing it. But, it is also clearly not the way the founding fathers intended. Let's reorganize it. Let's do it the way they intended. Let's be more of the republic they envisioned.

   I like the idea of the legislators, themselves, appointing the electors. But, don't let them appoint themselves as electors. The Constitution says, "No Senator, or Representative, nor Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector." So, let's go with that.

   The idea is to elect wise people to be the electors. The idea is to elect electors who will consider the various people they are aware of, and find a person to be president who will be of the right character, demeanor, ability, and so forth.

   Thus, a republic. America becomes much more of a republic if we do it this way. And, since this is the way the Constitution set it up, it becomes more of the republic the founding fathers intended it to be.