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US President Donald Trump is a unique man. He is self-assured and stresses a "Me" philosophy that upsets some people. He is not what the 55 men from 12 states in the 1887 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia had in mind when drafting the clauses on electing presidents. Anti-democratic and protectors of elitist privilege, they still had to balance competing state interests in deciding everything including the contradiction between professions of freedom and the practice of slavery. Creating the Electoral College, dominated by the elite from each state to determine who the president would be gave them comfort that the wrong man would not succeed. With George Washington slated to be the first president, they were sure that political unfits would not be anywhere near the presidency. Trump, a convicted felon, has proved all of them wrong by recapturing the presidency.
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