text:  really the most influential founding father when it came to drafting the constitution he actually said that he thought the people would be the best way of choosing the president but he said he worried that it would disenfranchise the south because the south had so many enslaved people who couldn't vote therefore the northern states would have more free people and therefore the south would be at a disadvantage so he basically came out and said we should have a direct election of the presidency except not for slavery