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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... impeach- ment of District Judge John Pickering.3 The old man had declined into se- nility and alcoholism , and was plainly “ insane ” under the standards of the day , so his impeachment raised a larger legal question . An insane man ...
... impeachment mo- tion won on a party - line vote of 73 to 32.16 The impeachment managers came up with a set of formal charges three weeks later , on the next - to- last day of the session - but the House itself did not get a chance to de ...
... Impeachment and Politics , " 63 So. Atl . Q. 552 , 556 ( 1964 ) ( “ The impeachment of Pickering was but the first step in the Republican program . " ) . Even Jefferson's very sympathetic biographer , Dumas Malone , cau- tions that his ...
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PART ONE The Peoples President | 3 |
Constitutional Brinksmanship | 111 |
Republican Triumph | 142 |
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