The merits of popular election debated
Commentary
The proposal for direct election of the executive magistrate was to fail immediately. In the summaries of the debate that are extant, it is clear that the members of the Convention speculated widely about the nature of such elections, worrying about the kinds of people that might be chosen, and wondering how the sheer scale of the United States would shape any electoral contest.
The Virginia Plan as amended in Committee [Resolutions] - Ninth Resolution (Working Version): Second Clause (Mode of Election) - Morris for Election by Citizens was debated
on 17 July 1787
Approved for publication
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The merits of popular election debated by Dr Nicholas Cole (npcole)
The Creation of the Electoral College
Cite as: Dr Nicholas Cole, ‘The merits of popular election debated’ in N. P. Cole, Grace Mallon and Kat Howarth, The Creation of the Electoral College, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 69.