constitution question ?

Question

can someone put this in easier terms

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the
United States of America. He shall hold his Offi ce during
the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President,
chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature
thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the
whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which
the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or
Representative, or Person holding an Offi ce of Trust or Profit
under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.


Thanks

Answer 1

The president gets to head up the federal bureaucracy, and is in office for terms of 4 years, and is elected by electors appointed by the states however they see fit. (all states select by elections now.)

Answer 2

This section covers the Electoral College.

The President is not elected by direct votes. Instead, the votes elect a group of people, representing each state, assemble to elect the President. These Electors then each cast one vote towards the person who was chosen by majority of their state. While the group as a whole has always voted the same way the votes do, they DO have the ability to throw out what the voters say and elect whoever they want.

The representatives to the Electoral College from each state equal the amount of Senators & Reps. that each state has (For instance, Oregon has 5 Reps & 2 Senators= 7 Electoral College votes.)

The top part just states that the President & V.P. are elected together, and that last part states that no congressional member can be an elector.

Answer 3

This is, of course, how the Electoral College works to select the President and Vice President. In simple terms: Each state will pick a certain number of people ( electors ), and that number will be the same as the number of congrespersons and senators. The last line seems to be the most confusing, but all that it says is that no elected Senator or Congrespersons can be picked to be electors neither can anyone elected to a federal office ( Office of trust ) or a federal employee ( office of profit ). These people will get together and cast their votes and these votes will select the president.

That being said, Is it the best system? It may or may not, but it is what we have now.

Answer 4

It seems that everybody repeats this nonsense that they heard in school or some liberal college: the electoral college has outlived its usefulness. They don't seem to understand that we the people do not elect the president. He or she is elected by the states. It could have just as easily been each state gets one vote. If one candidate carried 24 states, and the other got 26, the candidate with 26 would win the election. Or it could have been by popular vote (which is what everybody is being told today). This really doesn't make any sense, since the president presides over the states, not the American people. So, a compromise was reached: the president is elected by electors in each state. The number of electors in a state equals the number of congressmen, plus two more for the two senators. A state with six congressmen gets 8 electors; a state with twelve congressmen gets 14.

This just illustrates how bad public education really is.

Answer 5

A President and Vice President are elected together to hold office for a total of 4 years, the President is the executive branch of the government. Presidents are elected by using the electoral college whereas people not holding an office are chosen to vote as the people have voted. Even though we all vote, all our votes are totalled up and our votes determine how the electoral college votes for us. The population of each state determines the number of electoral votes each state gets. A president can win even though he does not get the popular, or, highest number of votes from the people.

I, myself, have often wondered who chooses these people of the electoral college and who are they that they get to perform this for our government. They are basically just voting how we have voted.

Answer 6

Spells out how long the term of president and vice president, and how they get elected. This is where we get the electoral college.
The electoral college is made up of people appointed by the state legislature to show up in Washington DC in January after the people vote to elect the president. In the US the people don't elect the President the electoral college does.

Answer 7

This is a description of the Electoral College which makes as much sense as it's description. In the beginning of our government it was used as a sort of checks and balance. The Constitution is a beautiful document and most of it holds truth till today. But the electoral college is unnecessary and burdensome.