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The leaders of your country at the time the constitution was written created the electoral college to elect the president the leaders felt?
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The first president of this country was elected by?
A. Electoral College
What group of people are officially responsible for electing a president?
The electoral college is the group of people who officially elect the US president.
What is the body of electors that represent the peoples vote in choosing the president?
The people (read: noncriminal citizens above the age of 18) of that country. The people of the United States elect the President by Popular Vote, but the Electoral College is the body that officially elects the President into office. (There have been 4 Presidents elected into office by the Electoral College that lost the popular vote, which means that the majority of people didn't vote for that president. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/f/pres_unpopular.htm)
What part of the country did George Washington carry in the election of 1789?
When Washington became the first President of the United States, there were no elections for that office like we have today. The Electoral College chose Washington president. He is the only person to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College for the office of President. MrV
What was the Executive Branch Electoral college about?
The Electoral College is a process by which the President of the United States is elected. It consists of electors from each state who cast their votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in their respective state. The number of electors for each state is based on their representation in Congress.
Shouldn't the people of our country have final say about who is our Commander-in-chief and not the delegates?
The US isn't a democracy, it's a republic. The delegates will choose the candidate for each party, and the voters then choose the electoral college. The electoral college then selects the president. I believe your constitution allows you to choose another system should the existing one be deemed to be corrupted.
Who officially chooses the president of the United states?
the people of the US but he/she (well can be she hasn't yet) is sworn in by a supreme court justice The above answer is incorrect. Officially the president is NOT elected by the people of the country. The people vote for electors (there are a total of 538 of them), and the electors choose the president.
Which countries are democracies without an electoral college?
The United States is the only example of a country in the world which uses an electoral college to indirectly elect the executive, so every other democracy is one without an electoral college.
How can the electoral college be changed?
The only way to change it is by Constitutional Amendment, because it is set up in Article 2 of the Constitution as amended by the 12th Amendment. The sole leeway Congress has in the process is determining the time of choosing Electors and the date they cast their votes. There is another method. The Constitution specifies that States choose how their electors should be determined, and most states (apart from Maine and Nebraska) use the "Winner Takes All System". So a new proposal is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Basically, if enough states agree to allow their electors to vote for candidate with the most votes in the country, the most popular candidate would always win. The electoral college would still exist, but it would be a mere formality.
What do you need to do to become a president of the US?
All the Constitution says is that you must be a natural-born citizen (not someone who was born in another country) and you must be at least 35 years of age. To win an election, you must win a majority of the popular vote, and also have more than 270 electoral votes (you must win the "electoral college").http://wiki.answers.com/What_do_you_have_to_do_to_become_president_of_the_US#ixzz1ZOB2w1Wm
Who officially elects the president of the unite states?
The people (read: noncriminal citizens above the age of 18) of that country. The people of the United States elect the President by Popular Vote, but the Electoral College is the body that officially elects the President into office. (There have been 4 Presidents elected into office by the Electoral College that lost the popular vote, which means that the majority of people didn't vote for that president. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/f/pres_unpopular.htm)
How did George Washington become the first President?
Washington was elected by the process specified in the newly ratified US Constitution. Only 10 states voted since NC and RI had not yet ratified the Constitution and New York was not able to get its electors selected in time.As for why he was elected- he had no serious opponents. He was the man everybody thought of when a president was needed.George Washington was unanimously elected by the electoral college in 1789, making him the first president of the United States.George Washington was not our first president no one knows who it really was there was about 5 behind him. But he was the first for the entire country. Anyways... he became first of the country by guiding the Revolutionary War.
