Electoral College Idea

In 1787, The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers of The United States and put into the Constitution for a compromise between who congress votes for as president and who the people vote for as president. This established an indirect system for voting for the president. Each state chooses a representative to represent their state and vote for the president. The representatives from each state also choose the vice president. The Electoral college consists of 538 members. 435 of its members come from the House of Representatives. 100 of them come for the Senate and 3 come from D.C. The House of Representatives is one of Congress’ two chambers. The House of Representatives are based on population. After the census has been

The power between majorities and the minorities caused each state to become jealous of one another 's rights and powers. So, The Founding Fathers became afraid that, “A Tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power.” Therefore, they came up with many different ideas for The Electoral College. The first idea, was to have congress choose the president. The idea was rejected though, because it was too indecisive and would leave too many hard feelings in congress. The second idea proposed the state legislature to choose the president, but was later rejected because they thought the president could persuade the state legislature and he/she would violate federal authority. The third idea was to have direct popular vote. Later, it was also rejected not because of the framers of the constitution doubted the intelligence of the people, but because they feared since they didn’t know much information on politics, their vote could be persuaded or choose someone not fit because they came from their state. This idea also undermined the smaller states in popular voting because they had less

It later became a final document and had very minor changes. In making of the Electoral college many of the founders like Hamilton felt insure that the right person would become president. No one would be able to manipulate or persuade citizens of The United States. Also, The Electoral College only met once so, they could not be manipulated over time by any outside or inside sources. The Electoral College knew more about politics and could choose carefully about who they thought was a good and qualified president. The Electoral college pleased smaller states as well, because each state the same number of electoral votes as they did that represented them in congress. If it was based on population many states like Maine wouldn’t have a say in most of the voting. Although, there are disadvantages of the Electoral College, The Electoral College has been the best fitting for The United States. It provides equality, intelligent voting, and many different types of leadership. It had made America come together on voting with each other and not passing any detail on who will become our next