Question: When did the us adopt the electoral college?

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context: The Convention approved the Committee's Electoral College proposal, with minor modifications, on September 6, 1787. Delegates from states with smaller populations or limited land area such as Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland generally favored the Electoral College with some consideration for states. At the compromise providing for a runoff among the top five candidates, the small states supposed that the House of Representatives with each state delegation casting one vote would decide most elections.
question: When did the us adopt the electoral college at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
short_answers: September 6, 1787
wikipage: United States Electoral College
context: Although the United States Constitution refers to "Electors" and "electors", neither the phrase "Electoral College" nor any other name is used to describe the electors collectively. It was not until the early 19th century the name "Electoral College" came into general usage as the collective designation for the electors selected to cast votes for president and vice president. The phrase was first written into federal law in 1845 and today the term appears in , in the section heading and in the text as "college of electors".
question: When did the us adopt the phrase electoral college into federal law?
short_answers: 1845
wikipage: United States Electoral College

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knowledge: content: The Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan as the basis for discussions, as the Virginia proposal was the first. The Virginia Plan called for Congress to elect the president.[23] Delegates from a majority of states agreed to this mode of election. After being debated, however, delegates came to oppose nomination by Congress for the reason that it could violate the separation of powers. James Wilson then made a motion for electors for the purpose of choosing the president.
wikipage: United States Electoral College History
content: Later in the convention, a committee formed to work out various details including the mode of election of the president, including final recommendations for the electors, a group of people apportioned among the states in the same numbers as their representatives in Congress (the formula for which had been resolved in lengthy debates resulting in the Connecticut Compromise and Three-Fifths Compromise), but chosen by each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct"
wikipage: United States Electoral College History
long_answer: The United States adopted the Electoral College at the Constitutional Convention on September 6, 1787. The Convention originally intended to follow the Virginia Plan, which called for Congress to elect the president, an idea that was dropped when delegates came to oppose nomination by Congress for the reason that it could violate the separation of powers. A committee was then formed to work out various details including the mode of election of the president, which came up with the electors, a group of people apportioned among the states in the same numbers as their representatives in Congress, but chosen by each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct", forming an Electoral College system which the Convention ended up approving. Nonetheless, only variations of the word "electors" were mentioned in the Constitution, which wouldn't see the phrase "Electoral College" written on it, and therefore adopted into federal law, until the year 1845.