Majorities can easily trample the rights of minorities and when minorities' rights are trampled, the very freedoms which the framers fought for would be forfeit.
He was elected to congress from Illinois.
This is an international website - and in most places "congress" is not elected, but individual politicans are. Please clarify.
No. Gerald R. Ford is the only American to have served as Vice-President and President without being elected to either office.
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1789. He was not "elected" like we do today. Our founding fathers did not trust people , so it was set up that Congress chose the president. The man with the most votes won.
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THE president is elected by the electrol college. Congress is elected by the people
Not sure but i believe it was electoral college. Krispy
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he was elected the secondcontinental congress on 1787
He was asked to be the first president by Congress. The United States didn't elect people as we do today. Our founding fathers felt that the population in general was not educated enough to vote so the three branches were elected by Congress.
There were no popularly elected assemblies