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We the people ask the federal government to Call on Congress to act on an issue:

Elector Responsibility must either be honored as the Founding Fathers designed or end.

Created by I.J. on November 14, 2016

The Elector role is analyze the "qualities adapted to the station [of president]" and if they are not going to either 'analyze' or vote the popular vote, the Electors must be removed.
Hamilton said of Electors "most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station [of president]." Madison of Electors, prevent "an interested and overbearing majority" & the "mischiefs of faction" in an electoral system. He defined a faction as "a number of citizens whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community".
Electors must analyze "qualities best adapted" & not "adverse to rights of other" or end

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