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> It’s arguably now a fair bit more modern than the US system which hasn’t been meaningfully reformed since the 18th Century. I am sorry, that is simply not tr
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
> It’s arguably now a fair bit more modern than the US system which hasn’t been meaningfully reformed since the 18th Century.
I am sorry, that is simply not true. Abolition of slavery? Votes for non-property owners? Votes for minorities? Votes for women? Votes for 18-year-olds? Incorporation of the Bill of Rights to the states? Prohibition (and its repeal)? Switching from (mostly) excise taxes to income taxes to fund the government?
Those are just some of the high points.
Probably the most significant (yet rarely appreciated) change is that the Vice President is no longer the person who received the second-highest number of electoral votes.
It was realized early on what a monumentally bad idea that was.
Trump with Hillary Clinton as VP? Biden with Trump as VP? Scary indeed. One can only speculate how many more assassinations and "accidents" there would have been over the years had that not been altered.
- sickofparadox 3y agoThere are other, less flashy changes that have affected the way the government works too, such as the capping of the apportionment in the House of Representatives (which also changes how presidential elections work). We haven't added any seats to it since 1929!