Paved the way for democide too <| sep |> You keep mentioning mob rule , but there is no mob rule . The ever mythical founders created the house of representatives to represent every opinion and viewpoint . There ' s a reason the executive branch actually has fairly limited powers . Ultimately only one person can be president and that does mean a lot of other view points can ' t be represented there all at once . Switching from EC to PV doesn ' t suddenly convert us to mob rule . That ' s just hyperbole . And actually your example is really bad because each country in the EU does have a different voting weight since they operate on double majority rules . Specifically Germany gets about 2 . 5 x the votes of Hungary by the old rules and around 8 x the voting weight based on the new rules .