If the election of last week is any indication, the majority should be sacrosanct. I think the founders didn't trust the judgement of the smallholders who were the only ones to get a vote, apart from the barons and dukes. In addition, convening an electoral college to represent the approximate will of enfranchised citizens (white males with property) was a trick in midwinter with travel over bad roads to the malarial swamps of the new nation's capitol. Some people think the electoral college was a way to award power to Southern slave states, where each slave, though not allowed to vote, counted as 3/5ths a vote in determining the number of electors granted each state.  That arrangement made Virginia, with 350 thousand slaves (840 thousand total population) an electoral powerhouse like California or Florida today.

These days we don't have slaves, and at least in theory every grown citizen has one vote. Our courts and laws prevent any tyranny of the majority. Kill the electoral college.