Since the electoral college is a college of politicians whose job it is to know everyone and everything, we give them our votes and they vote for who should be the president. Therefore, you don't have to know who the president is, but if you give your vote to the elector then they will give it to who they know is about the ideas that you voted for. Nowadays it is much more complicated due to the scale of it all.
It was known as the Selective Service Act.
Peyton Farquhar was a man who would strive to accomplish anything for the Confederacy. The line “No service was too humble for him to perform in the aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier” confirms his devotion toward the Confederacy.
The painter would do a more professional job rather than the computer systems engineer because if he painted his own house without hiring the painter, it wouldn't look as professional as the painting of a professional painter. Thus, it would be practical for the computer systems engineer to hire someone who'll be proficient in doing that kind of task.
