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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... voting power . For presidential purposes only , each state delegation in the House would cast a single vote - Delaware's single representative and Virginia's large delegation counting equally34 — and the balloting would proceed un- til ...
... votes into what really mattered - control over state delegations . In numerical terms , Republicans managed to swing six states into Jefferson's column by the margin of a single congressional vote while the Federalists carried only two ...
... vote for the same person . " Id . , 514. Hamilton wanted to eliminate the backup procedure entirely by awarding the presidency to the elec- toral college winner regardless of his number of votes . Id . , 525 ( Sept. 6 ) . 37. The ...
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PART ONE The Peoples President | 3 |
Constitutional Brinksmanship | 111 |
Republican Triumph | 142 |
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