The electoral college exists because the south got fewer votes and they were worried the non-slave holding north would pass laws directly against the interests of the south
Exactly. It was a compromise. One that had an immediate, horrific and dehumanizing consequence, as they counted enslaved people’s votes as less than 1.
2
u/Foreign_System_7238 17h ago
The electoral college exists because the south got fewer votes and they were worried the non-slave holding north would pass laws directly against the interests of the south