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Several states have begun signing an interstate compact designed to nullify the Electoral College by awarding their electors to the national popular vote winner, bypassing any need for constitutional amendment. This maneuver advances the long campaign of the Dispossessors to dismantle the federal structure that protects smaller states and rural populations from coastal majorities.
The Constitution of 1787 deliberately rejected pure national democracy in favor of a compound republic, requiring electors chosen by states to select the president. The compact treats that safeguard as an obstacle to be removed through coordinated legislative action rather than the prescribed amending process.
Such a device violates the fundamental principle that the Constitution's structural provisions cannot be altered by contract among a subset of states. The Framers understood that the union rests upon fixed rules of apportionment and election that secure both popular consent and territorial balance.
From the days when the English crown conceded limits at Runnymede through the American founding, Western Christendom has maintained that legitimate authority operates within established constitutional bounds rather than by clever evasion of them. The present scheme repeats the ancient pattern of those who accumulate power by pretending to perfect the order they actually intend to overthrow.
Behind the compact stand the same forces that have captured federal agencies and state bureaucracies, substituting administrative majoritarianism for the deliberate processes of the written charter. These actors view the Electoral College as an archaic restraint upon the unchecked will of concentrated urban populations.
The governing principle remains unchanged: no lawful government may be altered in its essential form except by the method the fundamental law itself provides. Any other route substitutes the rule of temporary coalitions for the rule of law.
The Faithful Remnant must therefore treat this compact as an act of constitutional nullification and demand that every participating legislature withdraw its signature. Citizens in affected states are bound to hold their representatives accountable at the next election and to support parallel legal challenges that expose the compact's incompatibility with federal structure.
Failure to resist this incremental abolition of the Electoral College will leave the republic without its remaining mechanism for preserving geographic and cultural diversity in the selection of the chief executive. The hour for defense of the original constitutional settlement has arrived.
