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Why did the Framers of the Constitution not want to have the President selected by Congress?
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∙ 12y ago
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.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoIf they decided to let Congress select the president, that would give too much power to the legislative body.
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∙ 11y agobecause the framers keep on banging up the presidents
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∙ 8y agoThe framers of the constitution believed in the separation of legislative and executive powers.
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Why did the framers of the constitution give the president the power to veto a law passed by congress?
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Why did the framers of the Constitution provide that the President and Congress be elected while federal judges are appointed?
it provided the framework for popular sovereignty
What did the framers originally from the congress?
to amend the articles of the constitution
What were the people who made the constitution?
The framers of the Constitution were part of the Second Continental Congress.
Why isn't the constitution specific about the responsibilities of the president?
The framers of the constitution thought of the President as an administrator. They believed the department heads would work more with congress than with the president. They pictured the Vice President more as a prime minister rather than someone just sitting in front of the Senate. So, the framers of the constitution had a different concept of the presidency from the one that later developed.
The Framers of the Constitution primarily were concerned that members of Congress?
make policy
The framers of the constitution gave the chief economic policymaking role to?
Congress....
The Framers finally decided that the President and Vice President should be selected .?
By a body of presidential electors
Describe the framers plan for the selection of the nations president?
The Constitution expressly requires that the President must be a natural born citizen of the United States, 35 years of age.
The Constitution's framers believed that Congress's greatest prerogative would be what?
The power of the purse.
Which method of selecting the president did many of the framers initially favor?
Congress chooses the President.
Which method of selecting president did many of the framers initially favor?
Congress chooses the President.
