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Wasn't that the goal of the 'Electoral College' thing?
Not to mention the Second Amendment.

It's a genuine question.
 
Wasn't that the goal of the 'Electoral College' thing?
Not to mention the Second Amendment.

It's a genuine question.
The 2nd Amendment is the right to bear arms. Do you mean the 25th Amendment? It covers the line of succession should a president die, resign or be removed from office. Section 4 also says that the Vice President shall take over powers and duties as Acting President if the President is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Quite a few people are pointing to signs of Trump's mental incapability as a reason to evoke the 25th Amendment. However, it's really hard to do that as it requires a written declaration from the Vice President and a majority of the heads of departments in the Executive or a written declaration of the majority of members of the House and Senate. It's deliberately designed to be hard to do as it's not a decision that should be made lightly. However, a snowball is more likely to remain intact in Hell than the majority of Trump appointed officers or the GOP led House and Senate agreeing to boot him. They either directly serve him or he's far too useful to them to let him go.

The three branches of federal government were meant to provide checks and balances, so the executive, judiciary nor the congress could go too far without the agreement of the other two. What the "founding fathers" didn't account for was that the Executive and Congress would be singing from the same corrupt, kleptocratic songbook, and filling vacancies in the Supreme Court with those of their own ilk.

As I understand it, the convoluted Electoral College system was a fudge between those who wanted a president elected by popular vote and those who wanted them to be appointed by the congress. Seats in the House of Representatives then, as now, were based on population size. Southern states didn't want a popular vote as a large proportion of their populations didn't have a vote as they were enslaved (and of course no women voted anywhere). They feared their influence would be decreased so they refused to agree to election by popular vote. Northern States rejected appointment by Congress as being too open to corruption. So the fudge was a group of electors in each state, in proportion to their populations, who'd choose who they wanted by whatever means the state decided - election, caucus, state legislature, whatever. They'd then get together in early December in each state, cast their votes and whoever got the majority of EC votes won.
 
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