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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



... Senator Burr received one vote in the electoral college, at the third he received thirty, and in the fourth received seventy-three. Jefferson also received seventy-three and the election was thrown into the house. This was in 1800 and Mr. Burr was forty-years of age. The choice ...
— Jukes-Edwards - A Study in Education and Heredity • A. E. Winship
... ceremonious, and exclusive court about him. Thus before he had completed his two terms of office, Washington found himself confronted and opposed by a powerful democratic party. John Adams, his successor in policy as well as in office, was chosen President by only one majority in the electoral college; and when his term expired, the Republicans succeeded in placing Jefferson in the executive chair, and in holding power for a ...
— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle


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