Just a minor quibble; if the system actually worked like that, then there'd be no need whatsoever for the Electoral College, in the first place; you'd just tally up the votes in the State, and they get X points for whichever candidate wins.
The Electoral College exists precisely so that if 80% of their State votes for a literal rhinoceros, the Electoral College can say "you guys are morons, we're voting for <Actual Human Candidate> because fuck you idiots for voting for a goddamned rhino."
Sure, some States have passed laws to try and negate that somewhat, but that's the original purpose of the EC. If it's just supposed to blindly vote for whatever the State's popular vote decision was, you don't need the EC at all, and the election could've been finalized in November.
Another quibble; the Founding Fathers always wanted the Bill of Rights, but it was clear there'd be much debate over the details, so they left it out of the original Constitution so they could get the framework of government in place and spend a couple years hashing out the final phrasing of the Bill of Rights. They were all ratified and in place by 1791. There was no "usurping" or "civil war".