The New American By Rebecca Terrell
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has just signed HB 965, thrusting the Commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The move, spotlighted this week by National Conservative, Jack Danger, and others on X, brings Democratic-led jurisdictions to 222 electoral votes, only 48 short of the 270 needed to trigger the scheme. Once activated, every state in the pact will hand all its electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner, regardless of how its own citizens voted. No constitutional amendment. No congressional approval. Just an interstate agreement that renders the Electoral College a hollow shell.
Nothing New
This is not reform. It is the latest chapter in a 200-year Democratic project to strip power from the states and concentrate it in party machines. The Founders designed a republic, not a pure democracy. Only the House of Representatives was to be elected directly by the people. The Senate was chosen by state legislatures. The presidency was entrusted to an Electoral College of “good and wise men” selected by those same legislatures — two layers of insulation from raw popular passion and factional intrigue. The states, not the parties, were to control the federal layer in a country explicitly named the United STATES of America.
That design lasted barely a generation. In the 1820s, political parties — nowhere mentioned in the Constitution — demanded the right to nominate presidential candidates and dictate how electors would vote. Historian Charles A. Beard described the coup in stark terms:
In a short time the spirit of democracy, while playing havoc with the old order in state government, made its way upward into the federal system. The framers of the Constitution … had committed the choice of presidential electors to the discretion of the state legislatures. The legislatures, in turn, greedy of power, early adopted the practice of choosing the electors themselves; but they did not enjoy it long undisturbed…
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