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They would recall Hamilton’s words, in the Federalist No. 68, about how the Electoral College would guarantee “a constant probability” that the “distinguished office of President of the United States” would be “filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue,” ...
... about how “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity,” would not hold a politician “in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate” for the presidency, ...
... and about how “[t]he process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications,” ...
