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Why the Electoral College?
Oct 01, 2020
3 minutes
by William C. Kimberling
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Why did the Founding Fathers create the Electoral College? To answer that question, it is important to look at the problems they were trying to solve more than two centuries ago.
The United States was a different country in the 1780s than it is today. After the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the new nation consisted of only 13 states, which varied in size. All the states were jealous of one another’s rights and powers. They were distrustful of any strong central government telling them what to do.
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