Electoral College

It was important to win over these states, especially the ones with the highest electoral votes. Most states honor the “winner takes all” system where the citizens vote for a candidate and the winner takes all of the electoral votes, no matter how close the race is. We visited the states with the highest number of votes first. I made appearances at hospitals, appeared on talk shows, and made speeches…

Nasty political mud-slinging. Campaign attacks and person insults. These are some of the words used to describe the outrageous election between two very bitter candidates. Although this sounds rather similar to the present-day elections of 2016, it actually describes an election that took place more than two hundred years ago. This shocking election is told by Edward Larson in his narrative of the election of 1800. Edward Larson was born in 1953 and is an American historian and a legal scholar.…

next president. Instead, a group called the Electoral College carries out that function. Citizens cast their votes and those votes are tallied up by state. Once tallied, the Electors, also known as Representatives, of the states place their votes. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes. All of the electoral votes of that state count toward whoever won the state. This is known as the Winner-Take-All method. Whichever candidate has the most electoral votes wins the election, regardless…

States realized it is the electoral vote that determines the winning candidate. In this election, the president lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. Notably, only 51.3% of the American people assembled to vote; was the popular…

responsible for foreign policy. The people vested the sovereignty to nominate representative who exercises them for the benefit of the whole nation. This means that the president is directly elected from time to time by the people through the electoral college which make up by the electors. Citizens of each state vote for slates of electors who then vote for the president on the prescribed day, selected by Congress. The people also have the right to vote for legislature due the system…

States of America's most extraordinary and influential election that they have ever held due to all that it meant to the country. This election was the first election that had their own presidential campaigns no matter how chaotic and twisted the electoral process may have been. This election was so important that Larson called it “The Second American Revolution”(Larson 22). Larson called the election this because it filled many of the holes that were still in the government that was about to be…

Trump started as a business man. “After Donald Trump gets out of college, he purchases and builds the Trump Tower, Trump Plaza in New York City and he builds casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1990, Trump casinos go bankrupt as he faces debts. In 1987 and 1989 Trump creates a book called “Trump: The Art of the Deal”…

The 23rd amendment gave the residents in the District of Columbia the right to vote for the country’s president and vice president and representation for D.C. in the Electoral College. Before the 23rd amendment people who lived in the District of Columbia were not able to vote because they didn’t live in a state. Even though the District has the right to vote for president and vice president, they still don’t have the right to vote for members of the House of Representatives or Senate to…

the presidential campaign permits the presidential candidates to establish their campaign promises and attempt to appear appealing to the voters by the usage of media. Finally, the election process in which people cast their ballots uses the Electoral College system which ensures that the voters are heard. However, there have been certain elections that have exhibited the flaws in the election process. Thus, the election process has evolved from the 1800s to the present-day. The manner in…

Latin, Greek, and French at the age of nine. In 1758, Jefferson begins studying history, science, and the classics with Rev. James Maury as his teacher. At just the age of 16 he started his college career by enrolling in the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. During his educational years in college he began studying more advanced subjects such as mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy. After graduating only two years later, Jefferson will have obtained his law license and…