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  2. Federalist No. 68 - Wikipedia

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    In Anti-Federalist Papers 72, the anonymous Democratic-Republican Party writer argues that the issues with the Electoral College deal with the ability of electors, rather than the people, to elect the president. In his eyes, the Electoral College removes the power of the people to select their leader and instead delegates that right to a small ...

  3. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...

  4. First Party System - Wikipedia

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    The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. [1] It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the ...

  5. What is the Electoral College and why is 270 so important?

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    The byzantine Electoral College system has, five separate times since America began, delivered the White House to a candidate who lost the popular vote.. The Founding Fathers established the ...

  6. 1788–89 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Though no organized political parties yet existed, political opinion loosely divided between those who had more stridently and enthusiastically endorsed ratification of the Constitution, called Federalists or Cosmopolitans, and Anti-Federalists or Localists who had only more reluctantly, skeptically, or conditionally supported, or who had outright opposed ratification.

  7. George Washington's Farewell Address - Wikipedia

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    A 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. The thought of the United States without George Washington as its president caused concern among many Americans. Thomas Jefferson disagreed with many of Washington's policies and later led the Democratic-Republicans in opposition to many Federalist policies, but he joined his political rival Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists ...

  8. Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    While the Twelfth Amendment did not change the composition of the Electoral College, it did change the process whereby a president and a vice president are elected. The new electoral process was first used for the 1804 election. Each presidential election since has been conducted under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment. [citation needed]

  9. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Strongly disagreeing, the NAWSA in 1913 withdrew support from Paul's group and continued its practice of supporting any candidate who supported suffrage, regardless of political party. [226] In 1916 Blatch merged her Women's Political Union into Paul's Congressional Union. [227] Alice Paul. In 1916 Paul formed the National Woman's Party (NWP ...