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“Understanding the Constitution” Please respond to the following: PROVIDE SPECIFIC EVIDENCE FROM THIS WEEK’S WEBTEXTBOOK–NO OUTSIDE SOURCES in your response.

Using your Webtextbook, the supplemental resource featured this week and this link to the US Constitution https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992,

Read Article II Section 1 of the Constitution on the Electoral College (Be sure to focus only on the Electoral College and not the requirements or term of office, etc, only the Electoral College). Next, CAREFULLY read the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights about the “Right to Bear Arms” Now in a 400 word essay describe what you think each of these two parts of the Constitution ACTUALLY MEAN and why were they included in the language your have read in the first place. We are trying to understand these two documents in light of the history we have just read in the webtext. This is an exercise in careful reading and critical thinking, NO OPINIONS!

1.The Electoral College was implemented after a lengthy struggle among the colonies to decide upon a government structure that they all could endorse. They favored an elected government, and specifically a constitutional republic. This portion of the U.S. Constitution frames the process by which the states would elect the American President and Vice President. It’s important to note that the states’ representatives, and not the people, are responsible for casting votes for the presidential candidates. Specifically, the state legislators are responsible for appointing the Electors (which makes them the representatives’ representatives). Based on the webtext, the leaders in America at the time were concerned with ensuring that government business was handled by educated and financially stable men; with a strong preference for land owners. This concept of having representatives choose Electors appears to be in line with this thinking and serves as an extra precaution to ensure that those casting the actual ballots for the highest office in the land were, in fact, worthy representatives of the states. The number of Electors is equal to the number of states’ Senators and Representatives and neither of which can serve as Electors.

Article II, Section 1 also outlines the manner in which these ballots are to be tallied (by listing all Persons voted for and the number of votes for each), to whom it is to be delivered (to the President of the Senate), how (in a sealed manner), and to where (in the “Seat of Government of the United States”, presumably the nation’s capital). It also specifies that the Electors are required to meet in their respective states to vote by ballot. Simply put, the state legislatures appoint representative voters (“Electors”) who actually vote on who will be the President and Vice President. It goes into great detail also on how tiebreaker votes are to be conducted.

The “Right to Bear Arms”, also known as the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the Bill of Rights, specifies that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”, though it does so in context of the first portion of the amendment which says “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state”. At that time in American history the war with England to overthrow a tyrannical government was still fresh in mind and the importance of state militias toward that end was profound. The focus of the Continental Congress was on creating a framework with which the independently-governed states could have some measure of central government. The overall theme was of limited federal power, and the Second Amendment is one such example of ensuring the states’ rights would be preserved (by force, if necessary). The colonists rightly feared the tyranny which often accompanies too much centralized governing power. Without formal state or federal armies, the militias were key to maintaining the states’ freedom to govern independently.

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