That's when the Electoral College votes for president this election. The first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, in each state's capitol. The Electoral College elects the president. We elect the electors. We do not directly elect
the head of the executive branch of government. That's on purpose. That purpose does not, unlike selecting Tuesday as voting day, derive from originally being
mostly rural and without modern means of travel and communication
(Monday to get to the poll, Tuesday to vote, Wednesday to get home, not
disturbing religious observances, after harvest but before bad Winter
weather). To know what that purpose of the Electoral College is, and why our nation's founders
considered it one of the safeguards of our liberty and of our identity
as a federal republic, is also, IMHO, to know why neither political
party -- parties being neither mandated nor even assumed by the
Constitution -- will really serve the vision according to which our
country was constituted or greatly help or hinder in the ongoing working
out of that vision over the long run.
Washington was dead set against political parties. The man, not the city! Ironic.
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