Reply #2: The constitution was written to not have a system like this

[Hippo_Tron]

What you speak of is what the founders describe as "mob rule", where 51% have absolute power with almost no checks and balances. George Washington was faced with the question of why we need a Senate as he was pouring Coffee into a saucer to cool it. He replied, "we pour legislation into the Senate to cool it."

I agree that the electoral college should be dismantled, as it is an old and outdated system and I agree that there definately needs to be reform in the way that members of the House are elected but I think that with the exception of the Supreme Court, the Senate is the most fundamentally important institution to democracy. The Senate allows the minority to have a voice and to prevent the ruling party from passing legislation that is too extreme. Things under Bush are pretty bad now, if there were no Senate and no fillibusters (which there may be very soon), they would be much worse.