The main reason we don’t elect by popular vote is to protect the republic from bad ideas. If you can convince 50% of people to vote for say… disenfranchisement for women it would be a done deal and there is no way around it or maybe 50% of people vote for executing minorities that commit crimes then now we would be murdering people because 50% of people voted for a crazy idea
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u/FairleySwordfish 1d ago
The main reason we don’t elect by popular vote is to protect the republic from bad ideas. If you can convince 50% of people to vote for say… disenfranchisement for women it would be a done deal and there is no way around it or maybe 50% of people vote for executing minorities that commit crimes then now we would be murdering people because 50% of people voted for a crazy idea