The oddities of the first American election - Kenneth C. Davis

Good thing America doesn't really have democracy then.

Don't be an idiot. Children's opinions on most things are, at best, worthless.

It's perfectly in context: electors don't have to vote with the popular vote. The whole point of sending electors to vote was based upon how fast information could be sent. Since we are able to carry information "on beams of light and fiber optic cables rather than on the backs of heard animals", having the current electoral college is outdated and pointless. The system doesn't even promote small states over large. Swing states are a sad fact of this inadequacy. -CGP Grey quote

Define "children", and then we may have a discussion.

Congrutalions

You have the right to vote but does it matter? It's like saying you have the right to choose a paint color for your room but the guy mixing the paint chooses his favorite color.

I agree with you

The right to take the red pill or the blue was not always there... because people didn't acutally care and got on with there lives. Ha. But Democracy has not changed much with all the new current technology more people should be able to edit laws and the mob is the people of the country it isn't crazy people. These days if you can learn to write a law you should be able to edit bills passed and changes laws to suit people. :-)

"...many people thought democracy was one step away from mob rule", no it IS mob rule, at least in it's pure form. That's why there are no true democracies in the world, to have one there would be no such thing as president or senators or congressmen, a vote would be held for every single decision the government would make. It's far too inefficient, and a small group of people could rig it and screw everyone over.

it's like when 12 people eat a pizza, every one get a piece. But When 100 people eat a pizza, each person have to stand in line a long time, and what they get is almost nothing.

Problem is there pretty much is no such thing as wiser men we are all human here we all make the same mistakes.

elections haven't changes as much as you would thin by how many people gets to vote. The voice of the wealthy white land owner is still the only voice that matters.

Interesting how the electors used an "approval voting" system; GW was voted unanimously, but John Adams also received some votes.

Would you seriously allow our government to decide who the "wise" men are? There is bound to be corruption... Don't tell me that we can more easily determine who is wise and who is not through our current public "education" evaluation system. If our decision were left to "wiser men" there is no doubt we will be one step closer to fascism.To a government and any bureaucracy in general, a wise man is: one who can easily conform, one with little mind of his own, and one who can ONLY work when told.

I wonder why they never talk about the real first president of the U.S before G.W

I actually agree, if the system wasn't so corrupt now. I still think the Senators should be elected by the legislatures still, not directly by the people, so maybe they'd quite worrying about losing their seat if they vote for something that is good but my have bad consequences for them.

Vermont was independent in 1789, not part of New York State.

American Republicanism not Democracy. Democracy is a form of government that is ran by a omnipotent majority. Republic's are governments where the people (not the majority nor the minority but both collectively) choose the representatives who's power is controlled by law.

This video lacks illuminati jokes.

The Electoral College was put in place in 1787 to make sure the wrong man didn't take office . Secret ballots are SECRET for a reason .

so who ruled the country from 1776 to 1789? before Washington was president?

It wasn't that they thought that having everyone voting was a mob rule, it was more the fact that many people were uneducated and owned little land, so only the richer white men could really get an education, and the older in age factor comes in with just having more time to collect more land, and this was a factor because if you had more land you had more property to risk, "more skin in the game" so you just mattered more.

An interesting fact to note is when women (aka the first feminists) were campaigning for womens sufferage, the people allowed to vote were people that owned property, so some rich women could vote and some poor men could not, that is why I believe it was not right for feminists to only campaign for womens sufferage.

Do a hamilton video please!!!

Geo. "wining" by a unanimous vote can only mean many electors cross party & abstained from voting . (47) Madison/Monroe by 99% !

Washington was not the first president!

Franklin once said "We always chose Washington as our leader because any time we all got together, we has always the tallest one in the room." (That's a slight paraphrase).

wait if the first election is in a odd year, and it happens every four year, how did it ever become even?

And you still CAN'T vote.

Go Trump!!!

I am a women btw ;) but I like when he says about the women voting & something about that going away or being ruled out & the men just do a look over like "ohh well were did they go" so reallll, lol....funny thx...

Certainly it should be appreciated that everyone has the right to vote.

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People saying “we’re a republic, not a democracy” don’t know the meanings of republic or democracy. Yes, direct democracy is democracy, but representative democracy is, too. Not only are the two terms not mutually exclusive, but being a republic pretty much implies that you’re a democracy as well

NA didn't need a constitutional amendment to gain sufferage

I would be upset to be in a educational school video

Boy did this video age like fine wine and cheese

Can’t help but think it’s kind of funny New Jersey revoked Women’s right to vote after already allowing them to do so? What could they have done? lmao

Imagine the oddity of being the first ever President and having to navigate that office with a lack of knowledge or real understanding of what a President needed to do. That is an enormous position and was just treated as a selection rather than an awe inspiring election, if you will, like what we see today.

Democracy: two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for lunch.

you got the right the vote but lose the freedom of limited choice of people to vote

that was a great ending/reminder.

I like how in the scene with the all the election years, the portraits of the presidents were based on the length of their presidency: William Henry Harrison's portrait is tiny compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's portrait

This is a lie. John Hanson was the first President

George Washington was not the first president and actually there where 14 before him and he wasn't even elected he was installed. The cherry tree he chopped down was the Moore party and their symbol was a cherry tree. He literally destroyed humans say so in the political scape. All these agencies like CNN and History channel are all telling this same lie that Washington was the first president??? why are they so determined to erase true history?

Lol

Very interesting

There were 14 presidents before washington... you can google it, and they were all different races.