Harvard University Professor Alexander Keyssar spoke about the origins of the idea of the electoral college at the Constitutional Convention. He spoke about the deliberations that took place at ...

The Electoral College was conceived of and adopted at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution as a compromise between the ...

Committee members settled on the Electoral College as a compromise. "There were some attendees of the Constitutional Convention who did not trust the popular will as much," said Thorning.

Why the Electoral College? In 1787, the primary conflict between delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was over the process for electing the president.

This design incorporates the “genius of a popular democracy organized on the federal principle,” 3 and has been our electoral system that has operated successfully for over 200 years. ENDNOTES: 1.

A transcript from the Constitutional Convention records the official report creating the Electoral College. U.S. National Archives, CC BY-NC-ND ...

George Mason, circa 1750, was a delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Instead, the delegates created what came to be called the Electoral College — a college without ...

The Electoral College dates back to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, which gathered to put together a constitution for the fledgling nation. ... The Electoral College was, ...

The Electoral College was born at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The system led to some unusual results from the start, as evident in the election of 1800, in which there was ...

Attendees look at a map of the U.S. electoral college during the Republican National Convention (RNC) near the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024.

The history of the Electoral College is in part tied to America's history of slavery. NPR's podcast Throughline explores the complicated story of how the U.S. presidential election system came to be.

When it first took shape at the convention, the Electoral College would not have significantly helped the slaveowning states. Under the initial apportionment of the House approved by the framers, ...