The founders created the Electoral College and specified that senators would be chosen by the state legislatures because . they feared that the people would band together with like-minded people to fight for their own interests rather than make choices based on the public good they feared that powerful elites would dominate elections through the use of superior wealth they thought the only real alternative was to appoint senators and presidents for life allowing direct election of one institution of government was so radical an idea at the time that it never occurred to them to go farther and let the people elect other public officials

The founders created the Electoral College and specified that senators would be chosen by the state legislatures because  they feared that the people would band together with like-minded people to fight for their own interests rather than make choices based on the public good

Explanation:

Democracy was a new phenomenon and an untested form of governance throughout the world at the time it was being implemented in the USA so the founders were very skeptical in handing the powers to the public too quickly.

This was also because the voter base was very limited and consisted of the wealthy people of the country.

So it was seen as a better way to do things so the founders created the Electoral College and specified that senators would be chosen by the state legislatures.

answer; (you have the right of way);

it should be c, women were allowed to vote in all states because federal law supersedes state law.

"states can make their own laws, as long as they don't contradict what the federal law states. the states do not have the authority to pass a law that negates a federal law." -google