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Critics of the electoral college have pointed out how slavery played a role in its creation.
Southern delegates to the Philadelphia convention feared their states could be dominated by the new federal government because the Northern states had more people and more voters. So they fashioned a compromise that divided power based on counting the “whole number of free persons” in the states as well as “three-fifths of all other persons.” Thanks to this infamous deal, the Southern states were bolstered and given more seats in the House of Representatives as well as more “electors” who selected the president.
Pennsylvania may have had more free people and voters than Virginia, but the largest Southern state had more electors. It’s no accident that for 32 of the first 36 years, the presidency was occupied by a white, slave-holding Virginian.
For the fourth time in American history, the president-elect lost the popular vote. Credit the electoral college
Southern delegates to the Philadelphia convention feared their states could be dominated by the new federal government because the Northern states had more people and more voters. So they fashioned a compromise that divided power based on counting the “whole number of free persons” in the states as well as “three-fifths of all other persons.” Thanks to this infamous deal, the Southern states were bolstered and given more seats in the House of Representatives as well as more “electors” who selected the president.
Pennsylvania may have had more free people and voters than Virginia, but the largest Southern state had more electors. It’s no accident that for 32 of the first 36 years, the presidency was occupied by a white, slave-holding Virginian.
For the fourth time in American history, the president-elect lost the popular vote. Credit the electoral college