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They decided to let Congress elect the President.
He never attended college.
Eli Whitney attended college at Yale.
Roger Williams attended two different schools for his higher education. He attended both University of Cambridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
James Weldon Johnson, a leader for the NAACP, attended college at Clark Atlanta University. He later taught at New York University.
They were mostly college graduates, rich men, and some were planters and farmers.
They decided to let Congress elect the President.
Of the 55 delegates that signed the Declaration of Independence, about one half had attended or graduated from a college. George Washington attend William and Mary College long enough to qualify as a surveyor.
The Electoral College was created in the 1780s at the Philadelphia Convention (a.k.a. Federal Convention, Constitutional Convention)
By the Constitutional Convention in 1787/8
It would be false to state that the electoral college showed that the Constitutional Convention had trust in the people. People who are critical of the electoral college claim that it is an undemocratic system.
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The Electoral College System
There was only one compromise regarding slavery and it was the three-fifths compromise which stated that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of assigning House of Representative seats. Another compromise during the Constitutional convention was the Great compromise which created a bicameral legislature and the creation of the electoral college for Presidential elections.
electors chosen by the state :)tr678yu9iop[
At the Constitutional Convention, there was a compromise reached on the process by which the President is elected. The final proposal was written by Madison and described the electoral college process.
Yeah I got nothing. If this refers to the election compromise at the Constitutional Convention, it is the decision that led to the electoral college. Many did not trust the electorate to choose the President because they believed the majority of "common people" were ill-informed and subject to "mob mentality". So instead of direct election, they decided on indirect election through electors.