What was the purpose of the Electoral College when the Framers wrote the Constitution?
"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."
The purpose of the Electoral College is to vote for the president.
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.
to prevent autocracy and majority tyranny
The purpose of the electoral college is to elect the president and vice-president of the United States. It is made up of the electors from each state. They do not actually meet as a body, but send their votes to the President of the Senate.
They are called electors and as a group they form the electoral college.
Political parties have most dramatically reshaped the electoral college from its intended purpose. A result of party practices were the use of the electoral college as a "rubber stamp" for the popular vote.
to guide the people in the right direction, so they could form a better union!The purpose was to guide others in life.The purpose of the preamble is to give a introduction to the us constitutionit's to explain the goals of the Constitution
because fedralism gives power not only to the national govermnt but to the state government too.
The electoral vote of every state accurately reflects the popular vote within that state. Therefore, every elector in the Electoral College is expected to cast the electoral vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that elector's state.
In the context of India, the President is elected by an Electoral College that consists of members of both houses of Parliament (Members of Parliament or MPs) and members of the state legislative assemblies (Members of Legislative Assemblies or MLAs). This Electoral College is formed for the purpose of electing the President of India.
The framers believed that the primary purpose of government was to secure our unalienable rights.