True.
The constitution calls for the President to elected by electors from the states. It allows the state legislatures to decide how to choose its electors. Probably most of the framers expected the legislatures to elect the electors rather than holding a popular election to choose them.
Electors from the states.
The Constitution just calls them "electors".
Article Two of the US Constitution deals with the issues of the executive branch. The framers intended for each state to appoint a number of electors who would then come together to vote for two people they would like to see as President. The person who won the majority of votes would be President, the person who got the second-most amount of votes for President would become Vice President.
A majority of the Electors in the Electoral College
Electors
it provided the framework for popular sovereignty
Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by the electoral college. A president candidate can win the popular vote and still not win if he doesn't win the electoral college.
According to the US constitution which is the basis of all US law and government, the President must be elected by electors chosen according to state law. The states have determined that these electors will be chosen by the voters of the state.
They are elected in separate ballots by the same electors.
The framers wanted a presidency that could withstand intense popular pressure. It set out to accomplish this by having the president elected via the electoral college.
The President & Vice-President are elected by the ballots cast by citizens called electors.