I don't see any abuses in the EC system. We are a republic. When the 13 independent states united to form the United States, they were concerned about the most populous states having too much power and set up the EC to prevent that very thing. It seems that the most populous states now want to rewrite the system. We joined the union with the understanding that the EC protected us from the more populous states. To change it now would necessarily give us an 'opt out', I think.