With a rising chorus on the Left for an end to the Electoral College, an adjunct to the basic principles behind the concept that the Founding Fathers considered is the following basic chain of logic:
Think of sparse settlers in the geographically-huge state of Wisconsin, otherwise having no say in the election of the President, or salient representation in the U.S. Senate, were pure, borderless majoritianism to hold sway.
- The Electoral College is an acknowledgment of the tribal nature of states…
- which is itself an acknowledgment of the tribal nature of counties…
- which is itself an acknowledgement of the tribal nature of towns…
- which is itself an acknowledgement of the tribal nature of… communities…
- which is itself an acknowledgement of the tribal nature of… tribes.
The Electoral College is, in a way, an originalist cognizance of the perennial tribal nature of mankind, a cognizance that the basic organizing principles of mankind is to form different in-groups and out-groups (e.g.,social identity theory), which itself is an eternal part of the ‘crooked timber of humanity.’
