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electoral college  

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  • As specified by the United States Constitution, the method by which the president is chosen. How the president was to be elected proved to be one of many vexing problems for the fifty-five men who assembled in Philadelphia in May 1787 to draft the Constitution. [Source: Student's Guide to the Presidency; Electoral College]

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