The framers of the Constitution, bewildered by many proposals and unable to agree on any single plan, had committed the choice of presidential electors to the discretion of the state legislatures.
As the suffrage was widened and the popular choice ofpresidential electors extended, there arose a violent protest against the methods used by the political parties in nominating candidates.
Supreme Court through Chief Justice Fuller had rendered a decision that "the power of every State Legislature in the appointment of presidential electors is plenary, exclusive and final.
By their votes in twelve States, which have 91 presidential electors, they might decide the presidency.
Bills for Township and Bond Suffrage, and for suffrage for certain city, county and township officers and for Presidential electors, were introduced by him but failed to pass.
At the beginning of our national history, the state legislatures themselves chose the Presidential electors, but with the spread of democracy the legislatures gradually transferred the choice of these electors to the people.
In conformity with a long-established custom, Presidential electors do not exercise independent judgment, but merely register the vote of their respective constituents.
The Constitution evidently intended that the Presidential electors should be men of high repute, and that they should select the nation's chief executive as the result of mature deliberation and independent judgment.
At about the same time the various parties in each state nominate the quota of presidential electors to which the state is entitled.
But the blunder that broke his heart, and sent him into unexpected and sudden retirement, was his opposition to a change in the law providing for the choice of presidential electors by the people.
The following have served as presidential electors: Gertrude A.
It was signed by Governor Keith Neville on the 21st and gave women the suffrage for presidential electors, all municipal and most county officers.
Among the powers and duties of the legislature, which spring from the national constitution, is the power and duty of determining how the State shall appoint presidential electors.
It is not alone in the choice of Presidential electors that we have common interests.
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