Commentary On Elections-Part Seventeen, Eighteen, & Nineteen

Commentary On Elections-Part Seventeen

For head executives at the state and federal level, electors must be utilized to comply with the American Constitution and the Representative Republic ideal. In the first phrase of the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. Since the 12th Amendment of the Constitution mandated that electors should be utilized to choose the head executives at the federal level, electors must also be utilized to do the same at the state level.

Commentary On Elections-Part Eighteen

The following applies in Representarian (Representative Democratic Republic) Governance.

1. For the choosing of federal and state head executives, the scheme of electors must be utilized.

2. For the choosing of federal and state lower house lawmakers, the scheme of electoral votes must be utilized.

3. For the choosing of local elected officeholders, the scheme of direct popular votes must be utilized.

Commentary On Elections-Part Nineteen

The U.S. Constitution clearly cites that the members of the U.S. Senate and of the U.S. House Of Representatives have to be chosen by the People. However it did not state the People had to do this choosing by direct popular vote.

With electoral votes, the People can still choose these members of the lower legislative house in U.S. Congress. It is just each locality (county or city) casts its votes for the candidate who receives the highest vote total from the People of that specific locality.

In reference to the upper lower legislative house in U.S. Congress, the state legislatures should do the choosing.

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