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jerusalemcar5
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« on: November 17, 2007, 07:43:24 AM »
Quote from: Lamont Zemyna Vaižgantas on November 15, 2007, 09:59:31 PM
or a mechanism such as the Electoral College which bypassed the State governments and went to directly to the voters.


Well the states did still have tehr right to decide how these electors were seected.  How long did South Carolina have the legislature select them?  That's hardly a bypass of state governments.
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