When the founding fathers wrote our constitution they made sure to protect each state, regardless of size.

We have a House of Representatives that has a delegation from each state with the amount of members determined by the population in the congressional district. This is direct representation.

We have the Senate which is equal in that every state from the largest to the smallest has two senators. The original intent was for the senators to be appointed by their states but the constitution was amended to allow direct election and we have seen the folly in that decision with the lifetime senators barely able to walk and constantly campaigning instead of tending to the business of the country.

The electoral college is made up of the 435 House members and 100 Senators plus the delegations from D.C. and several territories.

Now comes Florida Senator Nelson, who wants to abolish the electoral college system in favor of a direct popular vote for president.

Guess who that helps and guess who that hurts?

It helps the big states in the Northeast and of course Florida, Texas and California and hurts just about every other state. In other words, if you live in what they call fly-over country your vote won’t amount to a hill of beans because the big city Democratic machine will make sure to get out all their voters; alive, dead, barely alive; legal and illegal. Vote early and vote often is a joke to us but not to a lot who will pay the money to people to do just that.

We do not have a parliamentary system of government and the founding fathers were a lot wiser than our present-day politicians. I wish Mr. Nelson a lot of luck if this amendment goes to the states for ratification. The majority of states would have their electoral voices silenced by a poor amendment like that.

But since Mr. Nelson is an intelligent senator let us figure out the legal way for us to call for a constitutional convention and see how much havoc we can raise as the delegates to the convention play party politics instead of looking out for the interests of their country. That’s the problem with amendments.