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Electoral college   /ɪlˈɛktərəl kˈɑlɪdʒ/   Listen
Electoral college

noun
1.
The body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president.





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"Electoral college" Quotes from Famous Books



... meant. It is meant not only that the private rights of citizens and corporations remain, but the citizens retain all the public rights of the State, that is, the right to representation in Congress and in the electoral college, and the right to sit in the convention, ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson
... landed in Pomerania, with his small army of twenty thousand men, the Emperor had been prevailed upon by a pressure he could not resist, and the intrigues of all the German princes, to dispense with the services of Wallenstein. Spain, France, Bavaria,—the whole Electoral College, Catholic as well as Protestant,—clamored for the discharge of the most unscrupulous general of modern times. He was detested and feared by everybody. Humanity shed tears over his exactions and cruelties, while ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VIII • John Lord
... the casting vote. Now, whatever may be thought of the actual workings of this system, it seems to us to be in itself the result of a change as natural and legitimate as any that has taken place in the practice of the English constitution. The Electoral College was one of those devices which are theoretically simple and beautiful, but which have never worked beneficially since the world began; and we have perhaps some reason to be grateful that it was virtually superseded before it had time ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various


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