I'm sorry to disagree.  The government is not "a union of sovereign states".  The government is "We The People", and exists, secondarily, "to form a more perfect union".   The Electoral College was instituted to thwart the will of "We The People".  Read the Federalist Paper #68..attributed to Hamilton.  The EC is NEITHER Democratic nor is it Representative.  Do you really think that, in America, "States" should decide who our President is, rather than "We the People"?  And if you do......Why?