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James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742–1798. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Wegman, Jesse (2020). Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250221971. Works of James Wilson 3 vol (1804) online edition, primary sources. Yoo, Christopher S. (2019).
Once the Electoral College had been decided on, several delegates (Mason, Butler, Morris, Wilson, and Madison) openly recognized its ability to protect the election process from cabal, corruption, intrigue, and faction. Some delegates, including James Wilson and James Madison, preferred popular election of the executive.
The interests of slave-holding states may have influenced the choice of the Electoral College as the mode of electing the president. James Wilson proposed the use of a direct election by the people, but he gained no support for this idea, and it was decided that Congress would elect the president.
Why we have the Electoral College. The rules for the Electoral College are outlined in the 12th Amendment of the Constitution. Because democracy was a new idea at the time, says Field, the nation ...
Generally, states award all their electoral college votes to whoever wins the poll of ordinary voters in the state. For example, if a candidate wins 50.1% of the vote in Texas, they are given all ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
The Electoral College is how the president of the United States is elected. In the U.S., there are 538 votes up for grabs between all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To win the election, a ...
On July 17, the Convention returned to the topic. Direct election by the people was defeated by a nine to one vote. Luther Martin then proposed an amended version of James Wilson's idea for an electoral college, first introduced in June. Wilson had proposed that people vote for electors who would then select the president.