Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

America’s government teacher” — says the Electoral College doesn’t give third-party U.S. presidential candidates a real ...

The Constitutional Convention in 1787, where the Electoral College was conceived, was a volunteer project that required tremendous personal sacrifice to participate in. Delegates, clad in layers of ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not ...

President George Washington issued his Farewell Address on this day in history, Sept. 19, 1796. He spoke proudly of the new ...

To answer that question, look no further than The Year of Living Constitutionally, the writer A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, cringe-inducing, balanced, sincere, and ultimately inspiring attempt to embody ...

19, 1796. He triumphantly celebrated the burgeoning ... he was unanimously voted the nation's first president by the electoral college in late 1788-early 1789. John Adams was elected the first ...

Surprisingly, he turns to George Washington to help make his case, flipping Washington’s famous 1796 farewell address on its ...

Really? Then how did Lincoln win the electoral college without winning a single Southern state, or even being on the ballot south of Virginia? Didn't the elections of 1796 and 1800 also feature ...

John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic, she offers a compelling exploration of the rise and tumultuous tenure ...

The Electoral College is a group of people chosen by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the ...