Reply #4: It's not that I don't trust the mob, the framers didn't

[Hippo_Tron]

Well, at least I trust the mob more than they did. Part of the reason not to trust the mob is to have safeguards so that the mob can't take away the rights of individuals, the right to privacy for example.

Again, I think that the people are more equipped to make decissions much better than they were in 1789 so I would be all in favor of getting rid of the electoral college and some sort of reform in the way that we elect the House of Representatives. However, I still believe that the minority needs a voice and thus, the US Senate is too important of an institution to do away with.

Oh yea, and the other reason that the system you mention wasn't written intot he constitution, is because political parties were never written into the constitution, as Washington and other founders were against them.