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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7485193, member: 101855"]<b>1800 Bust Dollar, Bolender 20, tied for finest known of a rare variety</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1294968[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Instead of making a list of events, I will cover what had to be the biggest event for the United States in 1800, the presidential election.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early days of The United States, the Electoral College picked the President, but the system was different and flawed. Each elector had two votes. They cast those votes for different people. The man who got the most votes was elected President and the candidate who came in second was elected Vice President.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1800, the political parties were just getting started. The Federalists, who had won the first three elections with George Washington (1789 and 1792) and then John Adams (1796) picked John Adams to run for re-election and Charles Pinckney as his running mate. The Democratic-Republicans chose Thomas Jefferson for President and Aaron Burr for Vice President.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make that selection, there had to be an agreement among the electors that all of them would vote for their party’s presidential candidate, and one of them would abstain or vote for someone else for Vice President. When the votes were counted, the Federalist electors had voted as planned. John Adams received 65 votes and Charles Pinckney received 64 votes. The Democrats, who won the election, had a problem because both Jefferson and Burr received 73 electoral votes. Someone had “failed to blink.”</p><p><br /></p><p>In the event that the Electoral Collage vote ended with an inconclusive result, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Regardless of its size, each state has one vote in the selection of the President. Therefore, the single representative from Delaware had as much power the whole delegation from the state of New York.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Federalists were not in a good mood because they had lost the presidential election. Some of them wanted to throw a monkey wrench into the entire system. Some of them wanted to cut a deal with Burr and make him president. This impasse resulted in 35 inconclusive votes in the House of Representatives.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, Alexander Hamilton, who was a leading force in the Federalist Party, brokered a deal that resulted in Jefferson winning the presidency on the 36th ballot. Hamilton didn’t care for Jefferson, but he disliked Burr even more. Oddly enough, the one representative from Delaware, James Bayard, made the difference. He was assured that Jefferson would not “destroy the public credit” or disband the navy. Thus, the constitutional crisis was averted. It also resulted in a permanent break between Jefferson and Burr.</p><p><br /></p><p>The constitutional flaw was fixed by the 12 Amendment. It called for the electors to vote for the President and Vice President on the same ballot, therefore avoiding future political crises[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7485193, member: 101855"][B]1800 Bust Dollar, Bolender 20, tied for finest known of a rare variety [ATTACH=full]1294968[/ATTACH] [/B] Instead of making a list of events, I will cover what had to be the biggest event for the United States in 1800, the presidential election. In the early days of The United States, the Electoral College picked the President, but the system was different and flawed. Each elector had two votes. They cast those votes for different people. The man who got the most votes was elected President and the candidate who came in second was elected Vice President. In 1800, the political parties were just getting started. The Federalists, who had won the first three elections with George Washington (1789 and 1792) and then John Adams (1796) picked John Adams to run for re-election and Charles Pinckney as his running mate. The Democratic-Republicans chose Thomas Jefferson for President and Aaron Burr for Vice President. To make that selection, there had to be an agreement among the electors that all of them would vote for their party’s presidential candidate, and one of them would abstain or vote for someone else for Vice President. When the votes were counted, the Federalist electors had voted as planned. John Adams received 65 votes and Charles Pinckney received 64 votes. The Democrats, who won the election, had a problem because both Jefferson and Burr received 73 electoral votes. Someone had “failed to blink.” In the event that the Electoral Collage vote ended with an inconclusive result, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Regardless of its size, each state has one vote in the selection of the President. Therefore, the single representative from Delaware had as much power the whole delegation from the state of New York. The Federalists were not in a good mood because they had lost the presidential election. Some of them wanted to throw a monkey wrench into the entire system. Some of them wanted to cut a deal with Burr and make him president. This impasse resulted in 35 inconclusive votes in the House of Representatives. Finally, Alexander Hamilton, who was a leading force in the Federalist Party, brokered a deal that resulted in Jefferson winning the presidency on the 36th ballot. Hamilton didn’t care for Jefferson, but he disliked Burr even more. Oddly enough, the one representative from Delaware, James Bayard, made the difference. He was assured that Jefferson would not “destroy the public credit” or disband the navy. Thus, the constitutional crisis was averted. It also resulted in a permanent break between Jefferson and Burr. The constitutional flaw was fixed by the 12 Amendment. It called for the electors to vote for the President and Vice President on the same ballot, therefore avoiding future political crises[/QUOTE]
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