History and development
Constitutional Convention-No mention of an office of vice president was made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention until near the end, when an eleven-member committee on “Leftover Business” proposed a method of electing. Recognizing that loyalty to one’s individual state outweighed loyalty to the new federation, the Constitution’s framers assumed individual electors would be inclined to choose a candidate from their own state (a so-called “favorite son” candidate) over one from another state.