In 2000, a candidate won the popular vote for president but lost the presidency, the first time that happened in 112 years. Since then, there’s been a lot of talk about Electoral College reform. After 2016, there’s been even more.
Election of the president was a hot-button issue at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the watershed meeting that codified how our new nation would be governed. Founding father and legal scholar James Wilson was the first…