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The Founding Fathers tried to save us from Abigail Spanberger’s greedy Virginia power grab

During the national debates of 1788, the great Virginian James Madison worried that mere “parchment barriers,” or constitutions, wouldn’t be enough to stop an “overbearing majority” from seeking power and stripping minorities of their voice and rights.

What he envisioned, in other words, was someone like Abigail Spanberger.

Virginia’s current governor recently signed a bill making her state the 18th to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a scheme to circumvent the Constitution and award all electoral votes to the presidential ticket with the highest national vote total — rather than to the candidate who won the state’s election.

Democrats spend a lot of their time accusing Republicans of denying minorities a vote.

Virginia Democrats, already pushing the most radical gerrymandering in US history, now propose handing the votes of all Virginians to other states with dissimilar, sometimes conflicting, interests.

How would Virginians feel if their electors ignored their votes to follow states that legalized the illegal immigrant vote or didn’t require voter ID?

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