The initial plan was for the most knowledgeable and enlightened individuals from each state to select the president based entirely on advantage and without regard to State of origin or political party. Under the centurial Assembly System of the Roman Republic, the adult male citizens of Rome were divided, according to their wealth, into groups of 100 called Centuries. Each group of 100 had to choose only one vote either in favor or against proposals submitted to them by the Roman Senate. In the Electoral College System, the states act as the group of 100 or as Centuries, but they are not based on their wealth, and the number of votes per state is determined by the size of each State’s Congressional delegation. The Constitution gave each state several elections equal to the combined total of its membership in the Senate, two of each state, and its delegation in the House of Representatives ranging from one to 52