This is a system set up by the founding fathers, people would want to stick with the passed down, original tradition.
It also gives low-population states a say in federal government where higher population states might overwhelm them, if its possible to that is. Plus, in my opinion at least, popular vote is pretty much useless
<span>struggles over the line of succession
is the write answer
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<span>Peacetime differs from wartime production. The two groups that cooperated with government to switch to wartime production must have saw the need to do so. However, without sufficient information, I don't know which are the two groups. However, these groups probably saw that things were heated.</span>
