Why was the electoral college set up?

electoral college was set in place because the founding fathers thought that the population could be threatened into that person into the presidency.

As president, Jackson relied on his "kitchen cabinet" rather than the official cabinet. He replaced a number of Republican civil servants with Democrats in a practice that became known as the spoils system. Andrew Jackson was a self-made man who rose from poverty to become president of the United States.

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