made numerous decisions over our new nation's form of government. When

they began talk of the executive branch, the question of how the president

would be chosen posed itself. The delegates mulled over many options,

searching for an appropriate and agreeable means for selecting a president.

There were two main factors that contributed to the decision. One was the

fear that giving the people a direct vote would open the way for an

over-powering ruler, much like they had witnessed with Oliver Cromwell in

England. The other factor was being able to appease both federalists and

anti-federalists. Federalists proposed a direct election by Congress, while

anti-federalists thought that the decision should be based more largely on

the vote of the populace. The solution to this problem was the electoral

college. This method of selecting our president would be made up of

"electors", chosen by state legislatures. The number of electors for each

state was to be the same as the number of that state's representatives in

Congress; however, no member of Congress would be allowed in the

electoral college to prevent the dominating political party in Congres

votes, like California's 54 votes (Government). By allowing states to have

concerning, because not only does this give the House of Representatives

election, the electors are required to state for which candidate they will be

would give a complete distortion of the people's true vote. Although half of

swing state is a state that receives an over-whelming amount of electoral

college has never been an ideal means of selecting the president. It served

losing candidate in that state. The "winner take all" part of the electoral

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