The Electoral College in Context

The Electoral College is a necessary part of a wider presidential election system, which in turn is the result of many factors, not just a few.

The Framers’ Bloopers

The Constitution’s Framers were very great men, but they were not gods. They made mistakes. By “mistakes,” I’m not talking about matters of political judgment, such as how much to accommodate slavery. I mean drafting errors of the forehead-slapping kind. Consider first a matter of style: The Constitution in its final form was drafted by […]