Explanation:
Defer to the decisions of the elected branches of government.
Answer:
In America, the presidential election system is not through the direct vote of the citizenry, but through the indirect election carried out by the Electoral College. Thus, each voting citizen gives his cast to a specific candidate, but said will must be endorsed by the electors of his state in the Electoral College.
In this regard, each state has the number of voters equal to the number of congressmen it has in the federal Congress. Thus, for example, states like Montana or Alaska have 3 electors (since they have 2 senators and 1 representative), while California has 55.
The problem is that, to determine the electoral votes of each candidate, it has been established that whoever wins the popular votes in the state takes all the votes of the electors of that state (except in the case of Maine and Nebraska). For this reason, it may happen that a candidate in California defeats his opponent 50.1% to 49.9%, in what would be almost a technical tie, but takes 100% of the electoral votes. Thus, the right of citizens to the election of their representatives is violated, and a candidate who has not obtained the majority of the popular vote (as happened in 2016 with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton) could win in the Electoral College.
Thus, many candidates adopt the strategy of campaigning and giving all their effort in the states with the largest number of voters such as California, Texas, Florida or New York, leaving aside other states considered less important.
Thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are called the reconstruction amendments which aimed to achieve political equality in the American society.
Explanation:
The purpose of the thirteenth amendment was to abolish slavery and annihilate serving someone involuntarily. Fourteenth amendment advocates rights of an american citizen and fifteenth amendment proclaimed that all citizens are equal to vote in United States of America.
These amendments were called reconstruction amendments because it was significant in transforming united states which was partially free and partially slave states to a country on which liberty and equality was bestowed without any disparity on all citizens of US.
