{"id":4343,"date":"2020-01-17T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2020-01-17T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:36:48","slug":"the-wisdom-of-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With their government design, the Founding Fathers sought to protect individual rights, not only from government, but also from our fellow citizens. As Alexander Hamilton explained: \u201cWe are now forming a republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government.\u201d With democratic governance, individual freedoms can be subverted by majority rule. The Constitution seeks to advance liberty, not democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says so right there in the Preamble:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"larger\"><strong>We the People<\/strong> of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the <strong>Blessings of Liberty<\/strong> to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/jose-azel\/2020\/01\/17\/united-states-the-wisdom-of-the-electoral-college\/\">The Wisdom of the Electoral College<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their government design, the Founding Fathers sought to protect individual rights, not only from government, but also from our fellow citizens. As Alexander Hamilton explained: \u201cWe are now forming a republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government.\u201d With democratic governance, individual freedoms can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wisdom of the Electoral College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}