Every four years, Americans go to the polls to elect the U.S. president. It’s a familiar process — the campaigning, the debates, the Election Day drama — and an equally familiar four-year schedule. But why four years, and not three, or five, or 15? To find the answer, we need to go back to a sweltering Philadelphia summer in 1787, when 55 men argued, compromised, and at some points despaired over creating an executive office that wouldn’t lead to that most unwanted and troublesome of things: a new king.  Here’s a look at how, and ...Read More