18 the Electoral College Was Originally Established in Order to

question 93

Multiple Choice

18. The Electoral College was originally established in order to

• A)provide direct election of the president by the people, although its operation has had the opposite effect.
• B)merely certify the results of the people’s choice for president and vice president.
• C)give the nation’s elite, rather than the people directly, the power to choose the president and vice president.
• D)insure high voter turnouts in elections throughout the country.
• E)give legitimacy to the presidency, which was regarded suspiciously by most people as another potential monarchy.

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