At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the delegates worked hard to create a document that would govern their new country.

At the end of the Convention, they had a session titled Leftover Business.

It was here in the Leftover Business section of the Constitutional Convention where the Vice

Presidency was born.

And some say it's been leftover business ever since.

Learn more about the Vice President of the United States.

Its history and the men and women who have held the job on this episode. about the Vice President of the United States, its history,

and the men and women who have held the job

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. When the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention first arrived, pretty much no one was thinking about creating a position of Vice President.

The thing on everyone's mind was the role of President.

There were many debates about what role the President should have and how they should be selected.

Determining the duties and powers of the president was done first and afterwards they tackled the problem of how to select the president. As I mentioned in the introduction, this was done in the last session dubbed leftover business.

The initial idea was simply to allow Congress to select the president.

This would be more akin to how a prime minister is selected, but it would be a little different.

The President wouldn't necessarily be a member of Congress, and it would be for a fixed term.

However, the idea of Congress electing a President was scrapped because it was felt that there would be too much vote trading.

Members of Congress would tie their votes for president to those who would promise them things in return.

So they went to Plan B. Instead of having Congress select the president, they would be

just create a mirror of Congress to elect the president.

This mere body would be the same size as Congress and have the same representation

by the states, but the individuals would not and could not be members of Congress.

However, they soon saw another problem. They thought that every state would just

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