electoral college demanded by dead slaveowners who didn't want to count their human property as full

[manor321]

1. That comment is actually ignorant

Counting slaves as five-fifths toward representation would have given southern slave owners MORE representation in Congress and MORE power.

And the Electoral College, along with the equal state representation in the Senate was a compromise in order to get any Constitution whatsoever. The young country was already falling apart at the time of the Federal Convention. Thank goodness they reached a compromise because otherwise this land would be split up like Europe, with constant wars and hard borders everywhere.