ELECTORAL COLLEGE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR SLAVE OWNERS?

[eniwetok]

5. ROTF... did you even read the link?

"The EC was primarily created because the Founding Fathers feared mob rule as much as they feared a king/dictator."

What utter bullcrap when antidemocratic government permits MINORITY "mob rule"

I see several of the Framers saying there should be a popular vote.

Mr. GOVERNEUR MORRIS: The Executive therefore ought to be so constituted as to be the great protector of the Mass of the people. -It is the duty of the Executive to appoint the officers & to command the forces of the Republic: to appoint 1. [FN3] ministerial officers for the administration of public affairs. 2. [FN3] officers for the dispensation of Justice. Who will be the best Judges whether these appointments be well made? The people at large, who will know, will see, will feel the effects of them.

MADISON: The people at large was in his opinion the fittest in itself. It would be as likely as any that could be devised to produce an Executive Magistrate of distinguished Character. The people generally could only know & vote for some Citizen whose merits had rendered him an object of general attention & esteem. There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.