As I read it, the discussion was not about the electoral college, but about representative democracy versus direct democracy. It was written in a time, when th

As I read it, the discussion was not about the electoral college, but about representative democracy versus direct democracy. It was written in a time, when there was the negative example of parts of the French revolution, where there was essentially mob rule, and people have been executed left and right, because the public could be sufficiently incited.