Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

to be selected by the Electoral College. It was designed specifically to safeguard against democratic tyranny. The smaller states in 1789 decidedly wanted this to protect themselves against the ...

Forty-six percent of Americans did not know the Constitution’s purpose was to create a federal government, and 26 percent incorrectly believed it was written to declare independence from England.

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are set to go head-to-head in Pennsylvania’s iconic ...

Justin Levitt‘s excellent piece earlier this election season, “Get Ready for the Scourge of Election Season: Electoral-Process Porn,” is well worth another read. That’s because a new round of paranoia ...

President George Washington issued his Farewell Address on this day in history, Sept. 19, 1796. He spoke proudly of the new ...

First on the list is the “Father of Our Country” George Washington. Prior to becoming the first President Washington was a ...

Other than that, historically, vice presidents presided over the Electoral College results ... “On sixteen occasions between 1789 and 1967, the vice presidency was vacant,” the Congressional ...

x Martin Van Buren served as the eighth president of the United States. He was born after the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. The previous seven U.S. presidents were all born in one of ...

While it is almost unheard of for an independent or third-party candidate to win a presidential election, history shows they ...

While George Washington was the first and last independent to win the presidency in 1789, third-party and ... Clinton could have won the Electoral College. However, analysts have argued this ...