The Attack On The Consitution

Yesterday, we noted with some dismay a decision made by the 9th circuit effectively banning any message the administrators at a school deem offensive. We said then, and still maintain, that this is an assault on free speech.

Now comes word of an even worse assault on the constitution of the United States. Texas Rainmaker discusses what would be, in effect, an end run around the constitution and the electoral process for the presidency. Legislation being considered in many states as the result of something called the "National Popular Vote" would invalidate the electoral college. They tyranny of the mob the founding fathers feared is at hand.

The Electoral College was set up to prevent the larger states from effectively owning the presidency. If this end run succeeds, the less populous states will effectively be shut out of the decision making process for the president. Consider that only eleven large states that contain a majority of the population will be needed to win the presidency. 39 states will be disenfranchised.

This is no less than an assault on the republic itself.

UPDATE: I notice that left-leaning blogs are studiously ignoring this issue. Jeff Goldstein is not. Nor Betsy Newmark. I disagree with Outside the Beltway's take on it, though. This is attempt to subvert the proper constitutional amendment process and should be frightening to every person in this country. What happens when a "compact of states" decides that nobody should own guns? Or a "compact of states" decides the press can only print certain things?

This is the road to tyranny.