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As we head into the fall election, Denver Brunsman of George Washington University will discuss the history of the Electoral College. Agreed to in the last days of the Constitutional Convention, the Electoral College persists to this day as a relic of 18th-century political thought and compromise. Why did the framers of the Constitution create such a complicated system for electing the President? Professor Brunsman will explore this and other questions about what might be America’s most unloved political institution.