As required by the Constitution, the President of the United States is elected not by the national popular vote but by the vote of the Electoral College. In the Electoral College, each state receives as many votes as it has members of Congress. Because every state has two senators and is guaranteed to have at least one House member, with weak votes. That year, Akhil Reed Amar wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times that the electoral college should be abolished, and Charles Fried disagreed. Here they are again. This is part of the challenges. “There is no realistic chance of a constitutional amendment abolishing the electoral college,” said Jacob Levy, a professor of political theory at McGill University. The state way He can.