United States - The American citizens today exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right of holding free and open elections to choose their representative leadership. In what's shaping up to be a staggering defeat for Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, at about 11:37pm on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, it was announced on several major news networks that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama had the statistical advantage and would become President-elect. If true, he will be sworn in on January 20, 2009 - marking the end of a constitutionally limited two terms in office for the former President, George W. Bush.
While the final vote tally is not yet in (at the time of this writing), Obama had an estimated 338 electoral votes for this election cycle, which is considerably beyond the current requirement of 270. Reports have been coming in that many precincts had greater than 80% voter turnout, demonstrating the extent to which Americans care about their government, their lives, their country and their right to vote.
At noon on Inauguration Day, Obama would become the 44th President of the United States. At about that same time he would be sworn in by what has traditionally been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by repeating the Oath of Office specified in Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, which reads:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Obama would be the first African-American elected to the office of the President of the United States. As recently as November 4, 2008, several news organizations have printed stories of concern over whether or not Obama was born a United States citizen. In addition to requiring that Presidents be at least 35 years of age, the Constitution also mandates that only natural-born citizens can become President.
Constitutional Republic
Many United States citizens do not realize that the United States is not a Democracy. We are Constitutional Republic, and our rights stem from ownership of property - the first of which is our body. The Constitution limits the extent to which the federal government (and in general form, state government) can interfere with our lives.
While we do have a democratically elected leadership, when it comes to electing the President, many states do not have a legal requirement that their electorate cast the state's electoral votes for the candidate receiving the greatest number of popular votes. It would be possible, therefore, that some majority percentage of voters in a given state chose to elect candidate A, while the electorate puts their votes aside and positions candidate B into office.
In previous elections it has also been shown that the Presidential candidate receiving the largest number of popular votes does not always win the election. This is due to the way the electoral college works in the United States, and is routinely a topic of great debate among Constitutional scholars and citizens alike.
Anyone wishing to learn more about the intent of the United States Constitution, and more generally the United States government in general, can read The Anti-Federalist Papers. This is a collection of letters published in newspapers by leading political minds of the day (when our country was founded). They remove all ambiguity as to what our founding fathers were looking for when they began this great experiment - The United States of America.
Celebratory Reports
Many late-edition news programs are reporting spontaneous assemblies forming in communities all across our land. These involve horns honking, screaming, and general get-togethers on what is being heralded as an historic day for the United States.
While the final vote tally is not yet in (at the time of this writing), Obama had an estimated 338 electoral votes for this election cycle, which is considerably beyond the current requirement of 270. Reports have been coming in that many precincts had greater than 80% voter turnout, demonstrating the extent to which Americans care about their government, their lives, their country and their right to vote.
At noon on Inauguration Day, Obama would become the 44th President of the United States. At about that same time he would be sworn in by what has traditionally been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by repeating the Oath of Office specified in Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, which reads:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Obama would be the first African-American elected to the office of the President of the United States. As recently as November 4, 2008, several news organizations have printed stories of concern over whether or not Obama was born a United States citizen. In addition to requiring that Presidents be at least 35 years of age, the Constitution also mandates that only natural-born citizens can become President.
Constitutional Republic
Many United States citizens do not realize that the United States is not a Democracy. We are Constitutional Republic, and our rights stem from ownership of property - the first of which is our body. The Constitution limits the extent to which the federal government (and in general form, state government) can interfere with our lives.
While we do have a democratically elected leadership, when it comes to electing the President, many states do not have a legal requirement that their electorate cast the state's electoral votes for the candidate receiving the greatest number of popular votes. It would be possible, therefore, that some majority percentage of voters in a given state chose to elect candidate A, while the electorate puts their votes aside and positions candidate B into office.
In previous elections it has also been shown that the Presidential candidate receiving the largest number of popular votes does not always win the election. This is due to the way the electoral college works in the United States, and is routinely a topic of great debate among Constitutional scholars and citizens alike.
Anyone wishing to learn more about the intent of the United States Constitution, and more generally the United States government in general, can read The Anti-Federalist Papers. This is a collection of letters published in newspapers by leading political minds of the day (when our country was founded). They remove all ambiguity as to what our founding fathers were looking for when they began this great experiment - The United States of America.
Celebratory Reports
Many late-edition news programs are reporting spontaneous assemblies forming in communities all across our land. These involve horns honking, screaming, and general get-togethers on what is being heralded as an historic day for the United States.
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