Thank you to the federal society for hosting this debate at. Im delighted to be here for the question, should the Electoral College be abrogated . Electoral college choosing a president. In their respective states electors choose wedding for president and Vice President. Electoral college would provide Vice President Alexander Hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College would provide a practicable obstacle to cabal intrigue and corruption. He said that it would interpose capable men of discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Moreover, hamilton thought the system best designed to prevent tumult and disorder. Debates about the Electoral College once again emerged over the desirability of our constitutions method for selecting the president. So this debate is an important one about our republic. And about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of principle. What are the values to be promoted in a democratic republic . In a feder
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Stop the rate of Technology Progress and if you just ask about what technology does its close to remove labor right thats why we use it no company ever goes and builds technology it increases technology so that their costs go out or their market share in a cigar they use it to reduce labor and they use it to buy the fund and whats happening is is you have the Work Technology moving at an exponential pace driving rate driving prices down and governments all around the world are caught in an inflationary trap that they created of themselves out of Monetary Policy fighting against force and i would ask a simple question. Isnt it good when the value of your money goes up and prices go down like for you personally and so so if we could see that could be a good thing and that means we could work less time in the abundance from technology would be broadly distributed instead of being concentrated like it is today i caught something that much i want to focus on this big ben read your book and
As you have known for the last couple weeks, the Supreme Court has been holding live telephone hearings. Taking a look at various cases the court is considering. We have been not only following them, you can see them on cspan as the hearings play out. Here to join us to talk about todays case is greg store of bloomberg news, a Supreme Court reporter. Good morning. Here is something directed people known as faceless electors. Can you describe what that means and also the case to be heard . Expectationa broad that when people cast their vote for president , that the candidate who wins the state will get the states votes in, what is known as the Electoral College. But those are individual people who vote and the question in this case is whether those electors, even though candidate a might have won the statewide vote, can go to the Electoral College and cast a vote for somebody else. So we have two cases at the Supreme Court. One out of washington and one out of colorado where states are
Then to disseminate the most important ideas in america in the most nonpartisan constitutional form and we have several events that i would like to plug including on december 2 we will host a raking news town hall on what the constitution says about impeachment and we will bring together a range of legislators and scholars to discuss the history and constitutional dimensions of the impeachment process. December 5 we have the federal Judicial Center on the Fourth Amendment and privacy, historical objectives and december 26 will be a moving program, its called the girl in the picture, remembering vietnam and it will include the heroic human rights activist kim who as a child was immortalized in the napalm girl photo, remember her running down the street. She will be with mark roden, atlantic journalist from vietnam and the prophet and composer, animal looking day was written an oratorio paying tribute to him and i think it should be an extraordinary evening. Now were going to start eithe