America's 250th Lecture Series: The Electoral College

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The Electoral College is the process the founding fathers established in the Constitution to select the President. It was a compromise between those who wanted to elect the President by a vote of Congress and those who wanted to elect the executive by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Learn whose idea was it? What were they thinking? Why do we still use it? How does it work? How has it evolved over time? Why has it been occasionally controversial? And should we change it, and if so, how? 

As part of the upcoming Semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, we are offering a 14-part presentation series that can be taken as a whole, or individual sections. Each program is designed to explore a different aspect of our government to show why, and how, it was set up that way and its impact on today. This series is presented by educator and historian, Frank Sachs.

Frank Sachs is a retired twin cities educator of 46 years. The final thirty-seven of those years were at The Blake School in Minneapolis where he is currently serves as Faculty Emeritus. While teaching at Blake Frank had the good fortune to study the Constitution and the American legal system at the Supreme Court Institute for Teachers at Georgetown Law School, and to be selected twice to be a Gilder Lehrman Scholar. First to study George Washington at Mt. Vernon, Virginia with author and George Washington University professor Denver Brunsman, and six additional Founding Fathers (Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, Marshall, Adams and Jefferson) at New York University with Richard Brookhiser, a bestselling author and editor of the National Review

During his teaching career Frank received several awards including being named as a recipient of the Presidential Scholars - Teacher Recognition Award, by the U.S. Department of Education in 2007, being named a Kentucky Colonel in 2009, and receiving a Citation of Merit for Outstanding Achievement and a Meritorious Career from his alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010.

Tickets can be purchased at https://dakotahistory.org/events/1059-aug-20-america-s-250th-the-electoral-college. Package deals on multiple lectures in the series are also available for a limited time!