The History Of The Electoral College

In order to understand the invention of the Electoral College we need to know the circumstances under which it was created. The Founding Fathers faced the difficulty of how to elect a president in a newly formed nation that: was comprised of 13 states of varying sizes each with their own laws and powers that feared a powerful central government, consisted of only four million citizens spread over more than a thousand miles of the Atlantic Coast with very little transportation or communication, felt believed that political parties were evil and mischievous, and believed that gentlemen were not to campaign for public office. ...

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