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A. CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT
508. ORIGINAL METHOD OF CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT.-The Federal Constitution sought to protect the office of chief magistrate against popular passion by providing for the indirect election of the President. According to the Constitution, each state was to appoint, "in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct," a nu