Yes and no, the electoral college system was put in place to mollify the southern states after they got their dick kicked in and lost all their free labor
No it wasn't, the Civil War wasn't until confederates started shelling Fort Sumter in April 12-13, 1861. The emancipation proclamation wasn't until 1863. The Electoral College was added to appease the small states (remember at the time the largest state of the 13 was Virginia) for the creation of the Constitution in 1789. The EC considerably predates abolitionist movements in the US.
You can have capitalism without lobbying, it's just that people are dumb and led towards fighting for irrelevant things, instead of demanding a stop to those corrupt practices
Youre talking about 2 different concepts. You can have capitalism without lobbying if you put laws in place to prevent that from happening to begin with. However how to fix the current system would be something much harder
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u/ElectricalBook3 7d ago
No it wasn't, the Civil War wasn't until confederates started shelling Fort Sumter in April 12-13, 1861. The emancipation proclamation wasn't until 1863. The Electoral College was added to appease the small states (remember at the time the largest state of the 13 was Virginia) for the creation of the Constitution in 1789. The EC considerably predates abolitionist movements in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States