2000 Election Essay
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the third quadrennial presidential election. The Election was held after George Washington, American’s first president that decided to only serve for two terms, announced that he wouldn’t run for a 3rd term meaning that they had about three months to find a replacement for him. The race pitted eight candidates against each other, with the two front-runners as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. The election was the first time, American voters had to make a choice between candidates from different political parties. The election was the first major competition between Republicans and Federalists. John Adams ran as a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson as a Republican. Republicans controlled the South,
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Constitution, authorized in 1804, providing for election of the vice president and president by the electoral college: should there be no superiority vote for one person, the House of Representatives chooses the president and the Senate the vice president, the candidate who received the superiority of electoral votes became president, and the runner-up was named vice president. After the 1800 Presidential Election, the 12th Amendment was adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vice-presidential candidate Aaron Burr. The Federalist Party and Democratic-Republican Party worked very hard to hurt the reputations of both candidates, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Federalists attempting to identify the Republicans with the violence of the French Revolution and the Democratic-Republicans accusing the Federalists of favoring aristocracy and monarchism. Republicans sought to identify John Adams with the policies developed by fellow Federalist Alexander Hamilton during the Washington administration, which they declaimed were too much in favor of Great Britain and a centralized national government. John Adams ended up winning the spot despite all the dirty tactics and back-door maneuvering. Adams wound up blaming Hamilton and Jefferson for his close victory, and he particularly targeted Hamilton for plotting Adams’ near-defeat by trying to funnel votes to a third candidate, Thomas Pinckney. Thomas Pinckney only ended up with 59 electoral votes by the end of the
Constitution, authorized in 1804, providing for election of the vice president and president by the electoral college: should there be no superiority vote for one person, the House of Representatives chooses the president and the Senate the vice president, the candidate who received the superiority of electoral votes became president, and the runner-up was named vice president. After the 1800 Presidential Election, the 12th Amendment was adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vice-presidential candidate Aaron Burr. The Federalist Party and Democratic-Republican Party worked very hard to hurt the reputations of both candidates, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Federalists attempting to identify the Republicans with the violence of the French Revolution and the Democratic-Republicans accusing the Federalists of favoring aristocracy and monarchism. Republicans sought to identify John Adams with the policies developed by fellow Federalist Alexander Hamilton during the Washington administration, which they declaimed were too much in favor of Great Britain and a centralized national government. John Adams ended up winning the spot despite all the dirty tactics and back-door maneuvering. Adams wound up blaming Hamilton and Jefferson for his close victory, and he particularly targeted Hamilton for plotting Adams’ near-defeat by trying to funnel votes to a third candidate, Thomas Pinckney. Thomas Pinckney only ended up with 59 electoral votes by the end of the