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A letter to the editor of the democratic-republican newspaper Aurora General Advertiser on December 1, 1800:

The puerile and circuitous mode of chusing the President by Electors was unworthy … of the framers of the federal constitution … [They] have left the way open to such maneuvers and tricks as are only fit to be practiced by a petty British corporation … The only expedient that sugests itself is a CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE … deciding upon the kind of amendment which it would be proper to propose … namely, “That the Presidential Election be held on the same day throught the Union and the choice be made immediately by the People without the intervention of Electors.” …

A PLAIN REPUBLICAN

211 years later, we are still waiting for this simple change.

Quoted in American Aurora.