electoral college

made numerous decisions over our new nation’s form of government. When

they began talk of the executive branch, the question of how the president

would be chosen posed itself. The delegates mulled over many options,

searching for an appropriate and agreeable means for selecting a president.

There were two main factors that contributed to the decision. One was the

fear that giving the people a direct vote would open the way for an

over-powering ruler, much like they had witnessed with Oliver Cromwell in

England. The other factor was being able to appease both federalists and

anti-federalists. Federalists proposed a direct election by Congress, while

anti-federalists thought that the decision should be based more largely on

the vote of the populace. The solution to this problem was the electoral

college. This method of selecting our president would be made up of

“electors”, chosen by state legislatures. The number of electors for each

state was to be the same as the number of that state’s representatives in

Congress; however, no member of Congress would be allowed in the

electoral college to prevent the dominating political party in Congres

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