RE: (4) Of Dead Trees and Democracy (original purpose of EC ?)

I goofed and improperly closed some HTML on this node originally. tilly++ for code to put here that fixed it, but duplicate un-editable node 41054 remained, waiting to be deleted. vroom++ for quickly fixing results of my blunder. And before I forget, apologies to brainpan and others for temporarily messing up the thread.

Post went something like this:

It's been too many years since high school, and history was never my best subject. Just what was the original purpose for the Electoral College?
cheers,
Don

Update:
While the thread was hosed, Adam /msg'd these *highly*informative* links from the Federalist Papers and the EC WebZine. Adam++

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Use this by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 11, 2000 at 04:42 UTC
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by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 11, 2000 at 04:42 UTC

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