Thank you Carol, I see where you are coming from but can the people not change the electoral system ? It would seem to me that citizens should be able to petition the government for fundamental changes in that process. I have doubts about the simplicity of majority rule..majorities can become awful tyrants to minorities, as we all know.
   I tend not to think of democracy as mere majority rule nor do I think that the method of electing a leader is beyond the scope of democartic change...if both parties   accept the contract between them. What do you think ?