> Popular vote destroys any shred of state sovereignty that remains Popular vote will only remove state sovereignty if the majority of people are aligned with

> Popular vote destroys any shred of state sovereignty that remains Popular vote will only remove state sovereignty if the majority of people are aligned with that, at which point yeah, it should be done away with. However, the reality is that people generally do agree that quite a few laws are state-level, not federal, and so even with a popular vote for federal laws, states would retain the sovereignty they have now. Your reply there seems like a drastic overreaction. If we voted on our president via popular vote, we would have had a few different presidents in recent times, but I doubt any of them would have reduced state sovereignty significantly. States are still free to set their own taxes, run their own police as they see fit, etc etc. Basically, I don't think the popular vote would vote to repeal the 10th amendment, so it seems silly to say it would "destroy any shred of sovereignty". Especially since in this election, the outcome would have been identical.