So important was the selection of a president, the Founders wanted a small body of our best minds, holding no “office of public trust or profit,” to research, debate, and make a selection, just as we’d have wanted the best minds to have worked on the Manhattan Project. Imagine the consequence of having sent Kamala Harris to Los Alamos instead of Robert Oppenheimer. Certainly, no such group left unfettered to pick the most qualified person in the country to be president would ever return with Joe Biden as their choice.