Whether the Electoral College is fair or necessary is subject to fierce debate that in some ways dates back to its founding.

The Electoral College was conceived of and adopted at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The Founding Fathers established ...

Historical context of the Electoral College The Electoral College was established as a compromise during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Delegates were divided on whether the president should ...

The United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional ...

This story was originally published in 2020.Each presidential election reignites an age-old debate on the Electoral College.

The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, ...

The actual outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be determined by the Electoral College. The Conversation U.S. has ...

But some Convention attendees also believed candidates would likely ... “And then they say, well, what about an intermediate ...

The electoral college system was established at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and is written in Article II of the Constitution. While associated with being uniquely American, there were ...

A further sign of the Electoral College’s ephemeral nature: The term isn’t mentioned in the Constitution. At the Convention, Southern states successfully argued for using enslaved people’s ...

But some Convention attendees also believed candidates ... what about an intermediate body, which becomes the Electoral College,” LaCroix says. “[It] solves the problem of the president ...