Restructuring Amendment

This one is pretty much a no-brainer for most folks:

The National Popular Vote for President Amendment

Presidential Electors and the Electoral College is abolished, and the candidates for President and Vice-President with the greatest national vote total in the General Election shall be elected.

Originally, the Electors system was set up to achieve two things: to avoid election by the general population because the general population was generally uneducated nimb-bobs (or so thought the educated, upper-class businessmen and/or slave-owning nimb-bobs who designed and wrote the Constitution), and to deal with the logistics of operating elections over great distances with no means of communication faster than a horse.

Education is now provided and available to most citizens. While many citizens are still nimb-bobs, many of our representatives are, too, so this should no longer be a valid argument for lessened levels of democracy in our government, merely an argument for wider, cheaper, and better education. As for speed of communication, we usually know the outcome of every election within hours of the polls closing, if not before. Speed, too, is no longer an argument for lessened