Who invented the Electoral College?
- Written by Phillip J VanFossen, J.F. Ackerman Professor of Social Studies Education; Director, Ackerman Center; Associate Director, Purdue Center for Economic Education, Purdue University
A transcript from the Constitutional Convention records the official report creating the Electoral College.U.S. National Archives, CC BY-NC-NDThe delegates in Philadelphia agreed, in the summer of 1787, that the new country they were creating would not have a king but rather an elected executive. But they did not agree on how to choose that...