Paging Constitutional scholars

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Fri Dec 15 13:58:56 PST 2000



> CB: In the following , posted 11/21/00, toward the end you say:
> "As conceived,
> electors (most of whom were originally chosen by state legislatures) ".
> I took this to mean that originally most of the electors were chosen by
> the state legislatures and not based on votes of the populations of the
> states.

above is correct, I may have misread comment, my apologies Charles...


> On slightly different matter, not only is EC indication of anti-democratic
> framers, it is good example of less-than-wise framers As conceived,
> electors (most of whom were originally chosen by state legislatures) were
> expected to act somewhat independently in voting for 2 persons they thought
> "most qualified" to be prez. Framers expected most electors to cast one
> vote for someone from their home states. thus, votes could be so varied that
> absence of majority for any one candidate would be commonplace. And that
> would mean House option regularly coming into play.

note also point about framers expecting that electoral votes would be so dispersed that often no person would have a majority and so HofR would make final selection... Michael Hoover



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