Shaping the Electoral College, Part VII
Shaping the Electoral College, Part VII By Rodney Dodsworth August 26, 2019 July 20th, 1787. Since the delegates in Convention determined yesterday that State legislatures would appoint electors to the Executive office, the next logical question was, “how [...]
Shaping the Electoral College, Part VI
Shaping the Electoral College, Part VI by Rodney Dodsworth, August 22, 2019 July 17th and 19th, 1787. No other topic at the Federal Convention, our Article II chief Executive, demanded more time and debate. Our Framers needed some [...]
Shaping the Electoral College, Part V
by Rodney Dodsworth, August 19, 2019 June 9th, 1787. Our Framers were not about to substitute one national tyrant with another. All had lived under the abuses of George III and his royal governors. Less well-known today is [...]
Shaping the Electoral College, Part IV
by Rodney Dodsworth, Aug 15, 2019 June 4th, 1787. Benjamin Franklin - “The first man at the helm will be a good one.” The road to the Framers’ Electoral College was . . . arduous. At the open [...]
Shaping the Electoral College, Part III
by Rodney Dodsworth, Aug 12, 2019 June 2nd, 1787. Delegates once again met in committee, the committee of the whole, a parliamentary device that allows a more open exchange of views without the urgency of a final vote. For [...]
Shaping the Electoral College, Part II
by Rodney Dodsworth, Aug 8, 2019 June 1st, 1787. Not until the waning days of the Philadelphia Convention in September did our Framers complete their plan of the Electoral College. As with the other major institutions of their [...]