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At present, the US President is elected by the Electoral College system. One of the other methods of electing the head of US is Appointment by State Legislature. In this system, the state legislatures are responsible to choose the electors. No legislative framework is formed to determine the electors in the method of Appointment by State Legislature. The best part of this system is that it requires very less money and time for the total procedure. The state legislatures are given the power to decide the way of selection of electors by the Constitution. But there are few demerits in this system of electing the slate of electors. The state legislature can come to a stalemate in the process of appointing the electors. This deadlock situation rarely arises in the system of Electoral College.
The Appointment by State Legislature was widely in practice in US from 1792 to 1800. More than half of the US states practiced this system. This system was used in 1812 as well. After the Civil War, this system was practiced twice and both were to save time and money.
In this particular system there were few accusations that the electors were chosen in a corrupted way. Adams and Clay were accused of unlawfully defeating Andrew Jackson in 1824 by the Appointment by State Legislature.
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