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Presidential Elector Discretion: The Originalist Evidence

The Electoral College was the product of extensive, and sometimes excruciating, deliberation among the delegates to the framing convention.

Here are answers to some questions I’ve gotten about the Electoral College since Election Day:

opponents of the election’s outcome have been petitioning the Supreme Court to step in and take even more power away from the states

To come to Amar’s deductions on the Electoral College, one must actively ignore the entire breadth of the Philadelphia Convention debates

The Founding Fathers, particularly those from small States, were very concerned that they would be smothered by the larger states.