1. Our present system causes no serious complaint.
2. Choice by districts has been used and abandoned, because the vote of the state might be neutralized.- Stanwood's Presidential Election, pages 63, 84, 100 and 111.
3. If the district system had been adopted, several elections would have been changed. Elections by the House would have been more common.- Congressional Record, Vol. III, part I, page 628.
4. Under the district system the President and house would be of the same party, and therefore the government would be more subject to sudden changes of popular opinion.
5. The President would sign bills favoring close electoral districts. Gerrymandering frand and contested elections would be common.
6. The present system is against centralization and the states prefer it.