At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, in Philadelphia, delegates 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 …showed first 75 words of 922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 922 total…choice as a method of selecting a president, but times have change and the imperfections of the electoral college have been realized. The electoral college has never been an ideal means of selecting the president. It served as a good way to settle the debates over a menial problem at the crucial time when our nation needed to quickly strengthen its central government. It has long since, been time to amend our presidential election system.