Even as the Electoral College has never performed as intended, that the delegates at the U.S. federal constitutional convention devised it can help us to flesh out some of the hidden, or overlooked, deficiencies in how a U.S. president is selected in the twenty-first century. In short, societal blind-spots pertaining to the electoral process can be made transparent by considering the rationales that went into the Electoral College as it was intended.
The rest of the essay is at "Picking a U.S. President."
The rest of the essay is at "Picking a U.S. President."
