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“The electoral college was based on the framers’ distrust of majority rule and was a tremendous boost to slave states’ political power,” Chemerinsky told me.

The country today, he argued, was a “post-constitutional regime,” one that no longer adhered to the separation of powers among the three branches of government as laid out by the framers.

It's obvious that the framers made a huge error with this silly process of having the House delegations decide the election in case of a tie.

The concept that a president must be able to commit federal crimes in order to function would have been considered incredible and absurd by the framers who rebelled against royal prerogative.

“The framers knew too well the dangers of a king who could do no wrong,” he said.