Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 2
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
States Appoint Electors
State Legislators are given the choice of how they want to appoint Electors for the President’s office. The reason they have the choice is because they are the ones that were to have to deal the most with the Federal Government.
This method of choosing a president follows a representative form of government. A democracy would be different. Each state was to choose people to represent their interests. These would be people they could trust to carefully examine the presidential candidates and could certify a certain candidate to be the one needed as president.
When the elector is chosen by a state legislature, the elector has an opportunity to vote for the interests of the country and not just the state. Other variables can enter and influence the votes. Legislators would be bound to represent only their state. Electors would first be concerned about their own state, but would also be free to take other facts into consideration.
This system will not be necessary in the Kingdom of God. God creates and appoints each person according to His will, and based on the heart and preparedness of the person. His decisions are far superior to our guesses. Electors would make decisions based on outward evidence, unaware of the secrets of a candidate’s heart.
1 Samuel 16:7, "But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart."
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