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The framers hoped that people chosen to serve as presidential electors would be?
Informed Citizens
The framers finally decided that the president and vice president would be selected?
By a body of presidential electors
According to the framers plan for electing the president presidential electors would be chosen by?
There was a vote on who the framers thought would do the best and George Washington got the most votes
What is the district plan?
Proposal for choosing presidential electors by which two electors would be selected in each State according to the Statewide popular vote and the other electors would be selected separately in each of the State's congressional districts.
What is district plan?
Proposal for choosing presidential electors by which two electors would be selected in each State according to the Statewide popular vote and the other electors would be selected separately in each of the State's congressional districts.
Can the legislature of the states decide how presidential electors may be chosen?
No, members of the electoral college are chosen by each state's political party. For example, in California, the Democrats and Republicans (and presumably other parties such as the Green and Libertarian Parties) would select 55 devoted party members to be electors. California (as most states) has a winner-take-all system, so if, say Sen. Barack Obama won the popular vote of California, the 55 chosen electors of the Democratic Party of CA would go to their state capitol, Sacramento, on the Monday after the second Wednesday of December to cast their votes. In the 2008 election, it will be Dec. 15. The electors cast separate ballots for President and VP. Under the US Constitution, electors may choose whoever they want, but 24 states have laws punishing faithless electors, or electors who chose a candidate other than their political party's for President. (If you check out 270towin.com, they have historical Presidential election maps, along with mentions of third party electoral vote wins and those "faithless electors
How were the candidates in the 1800 chosen for president?
In the Jeffersonian democracy presidential candidates would be chosen by caucuses that were held by political leaders. In a Jacksonian democracy the candidates would be chosen by conventions.
Why should you have an electoral college?
There is still debate over why the US has an electoral college and whether it serves any useful purpose. As I see it, when the US Constitution was originally written, democracy was an experimental form of government with very little track record, and a number of safeguards were included, in case the general public were to make terrible decisions. So if the voters choose a really bad Presidential candidate, the electors in the electoral college theoretically can override them and choose someone else. Of course, this presumes that the electors themselves are better chosen than the Presidential candidate, which is an uncertain proposition. But the Founding Fathers were used to living in a society in which people of ability and accomplishment would automatically dominate their fellow citizens and would be chosen as electors. They did not foresee how the position of elector would eventually become just a minor form of political patronage, used to reward campaign workers.
Why should you have electoral college?
There is still debate over why the US has an electoral college and whether it serves any useful purpose. As I see it, when the US Constitution was originally written, democracy was an experimental form of government with very little track record, and a number of safeguards were included, in case the general public were to make terrible decisions. So if the voters choose a really bad Presidential candidate, the electors in the electoral college theoretically can override them and choose someone else. Of course, this presumes that the electors themselves are better chosen than the Presidential candidate, which is an uncertain proposition. But the Founding Fathers were used to living in a society in which people of ability and accomplishment would automatically dominate their fellow citizens and would be chosen as electors. They did not foresee how the position of elector would eventually become just a minor form of political patronage, used to reward campaign workers.
What is the Hamilton Plan?
It is Alexander Hamilton's plan for the US Constitution that advocated eliminating state sovereignty and consolidating the states into a single nation. The plan featured a bicameral legislature, the lower house elected by the people for three years. The upper house would be elected by electors chosen by the people and would serve for life.
Did the electoral college system originally give power to people or to elected officials when a president is selected?
States were given the power to decide for themselves how their electors would be chosen. I think it was assumed that state legislatures would chose the electors . Such a procedure would give the elected officials more power.
How are Washington electoral votes proportioned?
The state of Washington is allowed to appoint 12 electors for the presidential and vice presidential elections of each of the years 2012, 2016 and 2020, one for each of their two senators and ten Representatives. That is one more than they had from 1991 through 2011. The District of Colombia is allowed to appoint 3 electors in each of the three elections before the 2021 reallocation. They are allowed the same number of electors as the least populous state, which is currently Wyoming. If there were no states with a population lower than that of D.C., D.C. would be allowed the same number of electors it would have if it were a state (which would be 3 also).
