Why don’t all 538 electors meet in one place at the same time?
The Framers of the Constitution feared that, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, if the electors all met in one place, they would be vulnerable to “cabal, intrigue and corruption” and that foreign governments who sought “to gain an improper ascendant in our councils” might bribe electors. Also, Hamilton warned, electors would be more prone to “heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people” if they met in one place.
A. The Framers of the Constitution feared that, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, if the electors all met in one place, they would be vulnerable to “cabal, intrigue and corruption” and that foreign governments who sought “to gain an improper ascendant in our councils” might bribe electors. Also, Hamilton warned, electors would be more prone to “heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people” if they met in one place. Q.
