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Did the founding fathers did not want congress to select the president?
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∙ 7y ago
In order to give the executive branch what they called energy. One man would be able to make decisions and act on them, and rally public support for them, much more effectively than a committee. If their had been a plural executive they would have had to argue everything out before doing anything and if one or more of them disagreed with the decision they could say so publicly and undermine public support for the policy. In this the founders had the example of the Roman Republic in their minds. Rome had two consuls who exercised power, particularly military command, on alternate days. this sometimes resulted in one set of orders being given one day only to be contradicted the next and then changed back again the third. That makes it hard to get anything done.
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Jefferson
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wh did americans select george washington as there first president?
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Why did American select Washington as first president?
Americans didn't select him, the continental congress did.
Why did Americans select Washington as their first president?
Americans didn't select him, the continental congress did.
Did the Founding fathers want Congress to select the president?
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Why did the Framers of the Constitution not want to have the President selected by Congress?
They wanted the President to be elected by the people of the United States. In a compromise (Remember, the Constitution is a bundle of compromises), they Founding Fathers decided to have an "Electoral College," a group of common civilians who's sole purpose for being elected is to go and elect the President. Of course, in this day and age, with technology making a popular vote of the President much more practical, many people advocate the abolishment of the Electoral College. They argue that the popular vote should elect the President, rather than the people who elect the President.
Are The president's power to appoint supreme court justices is checked by?
The President submits his choice to be a Supreme Court Justice for approval to the Congress. If the Congress does not vote for approval, (and there have been times when they voted against the President's choices), the person does not become a Supreme Court Justice and the President has to select someone else and have that person voted for by the Congress.
What committee did congress select one representative from each state with one member who presided as president?
commitee of the states
What committees did Congress select one representative from each state with one member who presided as president?
commitee of the states
Where did the Founding Fathers study?
There were colleges in the colonies then, which is where a lot of them went. Yale, Harvard, King's College (Columbia) and the College of New Jersey (Princeton), educated a lot. A select few went abroad, but not many.
