Put Faith in Constitution, Not 'Democracy'
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Nov 28, 2016 11:52 AM EST
By
Noah Feldman
When my colleague Lawrence Lessig argued at Medium that members of the Electoral College should break faith and vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump, I chalked it up to the brilliantly contrarian Larry being brilliant and contrarian -- even if wrong. But when, over the holiday weekend, the Washington Post published his op-ed making the same argument, it made me think serious people might take his argument seriously -- which would be dangerous for democracy and bad for the republic. So with great respect for Larry’s ideals and values, here’s why faithless electors would subvert, not sustain, the democratic values that underlie the U.S. presidential election system.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-28/put-faith-in-constitution-not-democracy
