Road+to+washington

Part 1- Our founding fathers created this great natioon so that the people decide who is president. In the constitution, (article 2, Section 1) It says that The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. //(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately [|chuse] by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner [|chuse] the President. But in [|chusing] the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a [|quorum] for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall [|chuse] from them by Ballot the Vice-President// //And so the electoral college was born. This new form of government consists of an elected group of people whom will determine the outcome of an election by tallying up the votes in their district and marking one out of 435. We need 270 of these votes to win.//