Yes. Without the Electoral College, it would diminish the influence of smaller states and rural areas of the country; lead to more recounts, contentious fights over provisional ballots, and conflicts over the results of presidential elections; and encourage voter fraud. It could also radicalize American politics and lead to Presidents who are elected with very small pluralities, or who failed to qualify for the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
As the Western Roman empire from the collapsed, a new empire emerged with the dream of reuniting the two empire together and bring glory back to Rome. The Byzantine Empire, a place that start with the name of Byzantium, a city in Rome. In 285 CE, the Roman empire has grown too big to be able to be controlled by the Roman Government so the emperor Diocletian split the Roman Empire into two, East and West. Constantine later then became the new emperor for Byzantine and renamed the capitol city of it to Constantinople. Byzantine was a huge empire in Europe, next to the Roman’s and it’s capital is nowaday Istanbul.
Yes the pilgrims did want freedom of religion.