As the conclusion of the presidential race approaches and voters approach the voting booth, it would serve everyone well to remember and take note of one of the core foundations of America’s governing structure: the Electoral College.

The abolishment of the Electoral College is a popular talking point — with subjects like the packing of the Supreme Court — among Democrats who seem far too trigger happy to tear away the long-standing fence in our political structure that preserves the political power of Americans across the land regardless of the size of their relative populations.

Many seem to forget that America is not, in fact, governed by democracy — a fairer definition would be constitutional republic. The main distinction lies in the fact that a pure democracy relies on the will of the majority; conversely, in a constitutional republic representative, an established set of laws are utilized to prevent the majority from overpowering the minority.

That was a very intentional choice made by the Founders, who recognized the dangers of pure democracy and were weary of the societies who were consumed by it.

The words of one of the great Founders of this blessed nation, James Madison, illustrate this concept best.

“Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable,” Madison said in the tenth Federalist Paper. “That the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, that the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”

Do not fear that our presidential candidates are focusing on the swing states; rather, be comforted that those citizens across our great nation are not tyrannized by the overbearing voices of their rowdy siblings, because their voices are just as valuable as ours.