The Federalist Papers provide no indication that the Founding Fathers were aware that applying the compromise to the election of the President they were thereby creating inequality among ethnic and religeous minorities. Indeed, at the time slaves and women did not have the right to vote, and the voters were all male property owners. We now know that by creating the Electoral College to incorporate the same compromise between proportionalism and equality, the Founding Fathers unwittingly set the stage for a future elitist form of government in the 20th Century in which one group of voters (mostly white voters in the small states) was given greater influence over another (minority voters in the large states) in the election of the president. With the extension of the right to vote to African Americans and women in the 19th and 20th centuries, the instrument for protecting the minorities against the majority--the Electoral College--became an instrument for discriminating against the minorities in electing the president of the country.