Question

Before 1800, how were electors (usually) selected?

Answer 1

Do you know anything about the elections in 1800?

Answer 2

nope

Answer 3

Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution provided the original plan by which the electors voted for president. Under the original plan, each elector cast two votes for president; electors did not vote for vice president. ... Individual electors would be elected by citizens on a district-by-district basis.

Answer 4

That is what I found

Answer 5

that's what the electors do

Answer 6

I think so

Answer 7

Let me find something else to help

Answer 8

Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election. Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots.

Answer 9

By the House of Representatives
By the Senate
By state legislatures
By each political party

Answer 10

those are my choices, sorry i didn't put them , oops

Answer 11

Read what I just sent you then see if it goes with anyone of those answers

Answer 12

so that would be the senate then, right?

Answer 13

nvmd, state legislatures

Answer 14

but is that now, or 'before the 1800s'

Answer 15

before the 1800's

Answer 16

kay

Answer 17

True or False: Electors for the Electoral College select their candidate as soon as all of the votes are counted from each state and territory

Answer 18

it's probably true?

Answer 19

"Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election of 1800. ... With the votes tied, the election was thrown to the House of Representatives as required by Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. source (www.loc.gov)

Answer 20

doesn't relate lol