FREE ESSAY ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

The History of the Electoral College
The electoral college was developed by the framers of the constitution. This proved to be
more
difficult than they anticipated. The founding fathers faced the difficult question of how
to elect a
president in a nation that: was composed of thirteen large and small states, contained
only
4,000,000 people spread up and down the Atlantic seaboard barely connected by
transportaion so
national campag 
They were not willing to give the choice of president to the average citizen. Instead,
they divised
a group of select citizens called electors-the Electoral College-should decide the
president.
Candidate that received the highest number of votes would become president. The one with
the
next highest votes would become vice president. In 1800 when Aaron Burr and Thomas
Jefferson
reviced the same number of electoral votes the system had to be changed. Each elector was
now
to vote for one person for president and one person for vice president
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