The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential DemocracyHarvard University Press, 28 Okt 2005 - 400 halaman The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis. Ackerman shows how Thomas Jefferson counted his Federalist rivals out of the House runoff, and how the Federalists threatened to place John Marshall in the presidential chair. Nevertheless, the Constitution managed to survive through acts of statesmanship and luck. |
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... candidate received the votes of an absolute majority of the states . 35 This transformation of the People's House into a state - centered as- sembly may seem odd to us , but it made quite a bit of sense in the eigh- teenth century . To ...
... candidate in the next presidential contest . It is a bad mistake to designate him as the presiding officer for the counting of electoral votes . If the Convention had focused on the matter , the lapse could have been readily remedied ...
... candidate upon whom public affection and confidence had unequivocally centered ; the other seeking to place in the Executive Chair , not a candidate of their original choice , but a candidate through whom they wished to retain at least ...
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PART ONE The Peoples President | 3 |
Constitutional Brinksmanship | 111 |
Republican Triumph | 142 |
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