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The Electoral College at Philadelphia: The Evolution of an Ad Hoc Congress for the Selection of a President Author(s): Shlomo Slonim Source: The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jun., 1986), pp. 35-58 Published by: Organization of American Historians Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1903605 Accessed: 13/08/2009 12:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=oah. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Organization of American Historians is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of American History. http://www.jstor.org

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The Electoral College at Philadelphia: The Evolution of an Ad Hoc Congress for the Selectionof a PresidentAuthor(s): Shlomo SlonimSource: The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jun., 1986), pp. 35-58Published by: Organization of American HistoriansStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1903605Accessed: 13/08/2009 12:18

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