The History of the Electoral College The electoral college was developed by the framers of the constitution. This proved to be moredifficult than they anticipated. The founding fathers faced the difficult question of how to elect apresident in a nation that: was composed of thirteen large and small states, contained only4,000,000 people spread up and down the Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportaion sonational campag They were not willing to give the choice of president to the average citizen. Instead, they diviseda group of select citizens called electors-the Electoral College-should decide the president.Candidate that received the highest number of votes would become president. The one with thenext highest votes would become vice president. In 1800 when Aaron Burr and Thomas Jeffersonreviced the same number of electoral votes the system had to be changed. Each elector was nowto vote for one person for president and one person for vice presidentThe text of your term paper begins here. The sample footnotes are written in the ModernLanguage Association (MLA) style. Make sure that you use the footnote and bibliography stylepreferred by your instructor, and that both types of reference use the same style guidelines....
