The reasons this method was not adopted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were mainly as follows: Many people were illiterate and uninformed and therefore, presumably, could not be entrusted to elect directly the Prtesident of the United States; the transportation and communication facilities were poor, a direct election would be inconvenient; suffrage laws were not uniform in the states therefore voter qualifications varied from state to state. These objections are largely no longer valid . With the "federative" features I have incorporated into the direct popular election scheme, I can retain the merits and eliminate the criticizms of the direct popular election. In c1ose elections like those of 1958,1960,1888,1884,1880,etc., the small states (federative element) would play a much more important role than under the present system. But when a candidate has a clear popular majority, the federative element must yield to the national element for, if for nothing eIse, the President is the leader of the whole nation . However,the matter of the fact is that before the election no candidate can be absolutely sure whether the contest would be a close one, therefore, no candidate can afford to neglect the sma11 states . The latter would certainly play a much more important role under my proposa1 than under the present one. Hopefully my proposa1 would receive the support of both large and small states.