When designing the Electoral College, what were the Framers trying to achieve? What event exposed problems in the original design? What was done to solve these problems? Do any other problems remain?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Explain how the Electoral College was the result of a political compromise over whether the president should be selected by Congress or by popular vote.
2. Explain how the original design was constructed to work without political parties, cover both a nomination and election phase, and produce a nonpartisan and nondivisive president.
3. Discuss that the main problem came from the rise of political parties, and that it put the candidates for president and vice president in the same pool and created the possibility of a tie, as in the election of 1800.
4. Explain how the Twelfth Amendment addressed this problem by creating separate elections for each office.
5. Explain how there are other problems that still exist, specifically the possibility for the popular vote winner to lose the Electoral College.
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The foreign policy that utilized the principle of collective security to contain communism was practiced during the administration of
A) Dwight Eisenhower. B) Harry Truman. C) Franklin D. Roosevelt. D) Ronald Reagan. E) George H.W. Bush.
An opinion written by a justice who disagrees with the decision of the majority is known as a
A. concurring opinion. B. majority opinion. C. per curiam opinion. D. plurality opinion. E. dissenting opinion.
Where did King Feisal rule?
a. Iraq. b. Saudi Arabia. c. Syria. d. Morocco.