Presidential Selection: The Framers Plan – Flashcards
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Presidential Electors
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A person elected by the voters to represent them in making formal selection of the Vice President and President
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Electoral votes
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Votes cast by electors in electoral college
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Electoral College
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People chosen in the state and the District of Columbia every four years to formally select of the President and Vice President
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Ballot
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A tool voters use to select a candidate in an election
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The ___ makes the formal selection of the President and Vice President
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Electoral college
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Who received the second largest number of electoral votes in 1796 election?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Which Framer presented the plan for a body of presidential electors?
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Alexander Hamilton
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Candidate A receives 65 electoral votes; Candidate B receives 74 votes; Candidate C receives 61 votes; Candidate D receives 72 votes;. According to the framers original plan who has been elected President?
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Candidate B
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In the framers original Presidential selection plan, electors would ___.
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Cast 2 votes, each for a different candidate for President
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What difficulty arose from the Presidential election of 1796?
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The President and Vice-President belonged to different parties.
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What determines the number of presidential electors for a state?
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the number of its member of Congress
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Each of the following contributed to the Presidential selection system we use today except ____.
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the concern over seccession
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The framers finally decided that the President and Vice President should be selected ____.
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By a body if presidential electors
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In the Framers plan, the candidate with the second highest number of electoral votes would become ___.
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Vice President
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Who was elected President in 1796?
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John Adams
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What happens if no Presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes?
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The election is decided by a vote in the House of Representative
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How did the increasing power of political parties affected the candidates in the Presidential election of 1800?
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each party nominated presidential and vice-presidential candidates
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Why did some people criticize an early plan to allow Congress to choose the President?
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They wanted the people to have a role in selecting the president.
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Presidential electors were chosen to represent the interests of their ___.
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states
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The Framers hoped that people chosen to serve as presidential electors would be __.
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informed citizens
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"Electors... shall name in their ballots the people voted as president, and in district ballots the person who voted for as vice president." Which statement best describes the meeting of this texting from the 12th amendment?
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Presidential and vice presidential candidates for n separate ballots.
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Which method of selecting a President did many of the Framer initially favor?
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Congress chooses the president
