The Electoral College is A constitutional compromise between the opposing political factions to elect the president. The idea of the Electoral College was founded by the Founding Father mainly Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was among the first to write about the concept of electors in the Federalist Papers in 1788. The term “Electoral College” came in use from a functional …show more content…
Each group of 100 was entitled to cast only one vote either in favor or against proposals submitted to them by the Roman Senate. Also there were two designs that were created by the Electoral college, One design stated that Each State was allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives, but this number could vary from decade to decade because each population in states will increase. This first design was built to satisfy the small and large states during elections through congress. The choosing of electors would come from the choice of the individual State legislatures, thereby pacifying States suspicious of a central national government.The first design can be seen as a very elaborate design, but yet clever in certain ways. Considering that the entire design is meant to work without political parties and without national campaigns while maintaining the balances and satisfying the fears in play at the time. In fact the Electoral College was originally intended to operate in an environment so totally …show more content…
House of Representatives will select the president from among the top three contenders with each State casting only one vote and an absolute majority being required to elect. Therefore, same effect for vice president if no one receives an absolute majority for vice president this will force the US Senate to select the vice president from among the top two contenders for that office. Since the changes put in tact of the twelfth amendment there has also been a few curious incidents which its critics cite as little problems but which proponents of the Electoral College view as nothing major. The reason we have the electoral college is The Framers of the constitution feared direct democracy. Hamilton and the other founders didn’t trust the population to make the right choice. Direct democracy which sometimes called "pure democracy," is a form of democracy in which all laws and policies imposed by governments are determined by the people themselves, rather than by representatives who are elected by the people.The founding fathers also wanted to protect the interest of smaller