The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as a compromise between electing the President by popular vote and having Congress choose the President. They believed it would balance the interests of smaller and larger states and prevent a single region from dominating the election process.
They didn't create Freemasonry. However, many of the founding fathers were Freemasons. Freemasons date well before the United States.
The Electoral College was created as a fail safe against radicalism and also as a way to balance the power of smaller and larger states. It also made the legal question of who was elected more clear by establishing specific rules and having the legally recognized election happen in one place at one time.
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The Founding Fathers had no plan in place other than who would succeed the President if something happened. For the fathers to undermine the voters choice for President would've been a direct violation of the laws they had written to protect voter rights.
At the time when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, most U.S. citizens were not very politically knowledgable, and news traveled fairly slowly. The founding fathers created the electoral college so that people who were knowledgable about politics and America's economic standing, etc. were the ones voting and making the smartest decision for the country. However, it is interesting to note that the electoral college, though based off of the number of representatives in Congress, is not proportionally representative of the American people. This, as well as today's citizens being able to be politically knowledgable and faithless electors, has caused debate over whether there should still be an electoral college. However, today's voter turnout and political efficacy are both low, so there is still some reason to keep the electoral college. Anyways, I hope that was helpful!
The founding fathers create the congressional decision making process to be... slow and deliberative.
They didn't create Freemasonry. However, many of the founding fathers were Freemasons. Freemasons date well before the United States.
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The Founding Fathers wanted to make it difficult for one person, party, or group to get control of the government.
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The Electoral College was created as a fail safe against radicalism and also as a way to balance the power of smaller and larger states. It also made the legal question of who was elected more clear by establishing specific rules and having the legally recognized election happen in one place at one time.
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The constitution was a set of ethical codes that the founding fathers wanted to create to protect the citizens, and the colonies. They wrote the laws not to establish justice, but as a way to define what rights citizens in the country were entitled to .
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