"Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail." --South Carolina Senator John Calhoun, 1831

The Boston Globe of January 22, 2008 ran two op-ed pieces regarding the destruction of the Electoral College. Neither piece defended the institution. Rather, the argument was the best way to elect the President of the United States by popular vote. My how wonderful it would be if every man's vote counted the same. The ignorance of the position is astounding. While it is established that each state has the right to decide how its electors will vote, the scheme to unite the 11 most populous states in a effort to control the presidency is insidious. It betrays the principals and ideals of the founding fathers and seeks to subject the entire nation to the dictates of a minority of the country's locales, essentially, the coastal and urban areas. These "blue states", irritated that the rest of the nation has repeatedly rebuked their notions of nanny government, now believe that an end run around the Constitution will facilitate their unabated desire to dictate to those of us who disagree. Why should some rube in Kansas or Iowa have a say in government? The toothless and unwashed don't know what's good for them because the rail at the limousine liberals who regulate their every breath while holding themselves above the laws that they themselves create. How odd that these "dogooders" now wish to employ the same states rights that their carpetbagging ancestors successfully destroyed in the Civil War. If these 11 states are successful in this enterprise, the death of this once proud creation of enlightened men will soon cease to exist. Why not let New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco dictate? We all know that all things are better in these metropolis's do we not? None of these areas have crime, homelessness, unemployment, pestilence or disease. Each is an efficient engine of progress and a model of civics in action. PLEASE, spare the rest of the nation your guidance. Save us from the dictatorship of the illegitimate children of the Great Society, the uneducated of the metropolitan public schools and the self-proclaimed intellectuals. Is it any wonder that it these people who want to gut the Second Amendment and outlaw firearms? Alexander Hamilton was unambiguous on the importance of arms to a republic, writing in Federalist No. 28, "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense....". Prepare to defend yourselves Kansas, Iowa and the rest of the 39 states. The dusk of the Republic approaches.