Business Law

Running head: BUSINESS LAW
BUSINESS LAW
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1BUSINESS LAW
Question 1
There were various ideas considered for the method of president selection before the
system of Electoral College was selected by the Constitutional Convention. The first idea was to
let selection of the president by the Congress. The next idea that was selected was to be selecting
president by the way of State legislature. The third idea was to select president by the way of
direct election. All these ideas were rejected for difference of opinion. In the end an indirect
election was proposed by the Constitutional Convention by the way of a College of Electors. The
Electoral College is seen to be following the structure of the Centurial Assembly system that was
followed by the Roman Republic. The number of votes each State is entitled to is determined by
the size of the delegation of Congress of each State (Miller, 2013).
Question 2
The functions and structure of the Electoral College are discussed under the U.S.
Constitution Article II. For the president and the vice-president election each state is needed to
appoint a specific number of Electors who are to meet in their States and vote for two persons by
Ballot. The further functions of the Electors include making list of all people voted for and the
total number of votes received by each, list to be signed, certified and transmitted in a sealed way
and directed towards the President of the Senate (Harrison et al., 2017).
There are four crucial aspects for the mechanisms of the alteration of method of the
selection of President and Vice President in the 12th Amendment. The first was that the electors
needed to vote for two people one of whom should to be from outside of the home state of the