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- 11: The Writing of the Federalist Papers
- ... by the People of the several States…” ( A16). In this case, the people choose the members directly. On the other hand, voting for the President is done indirectly with an electoral college. Madison believed that if we used an indirect way of voting for the president, factions would not develop, and the minorities would not suffer. The number of electors each state has in the electoral college is determined by the whole number of Senators and Representatives each individual state is entitled to in congress ( Constitution pg. A6). The people vote directly for the electors ...
- 12: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... farm. In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common for a farm boy at the time. He then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern College, then left for another year at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After his college education, Jimmy started his career in the military. In1943, Jimmy enrolled in the United States Naval Academy. He continued at that school for three years, and then became a commissioned ... he would take his turn to run for the presidency of 1976. He chose Walter Mondale to be his running mate and defeated Gerald Ford and Robert Dole with an electoral vote of 297 to 241. Jimmy served as the 39th president of the United States until 1980 when he was defeated by Ronald Reagan (Young Students 156-172) (Grolier). ...
- 13: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... as a member of the New York state assembly, attorney general of New York, and United States senator. In the presidential election of 1800, he received the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson, but the tie was broken in the House of Representatives in Jefferson's favor, and Burr became vice-president. Four years later, on July 11, 1804 ... good governor to bring him to terms." He was small in stature, active, and handsome: very much like his father, who was called to be the second president of the College of New Jersey. Aaron Burr, the father, taught math, ancient languages. The college was moved to Princeton, and with it, the Burr family. Aaron Burr was successful in all his activities. But his career was soon to end. He caught a fever ...
- 14: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... in a “Great Society” for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere. Born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas and worked his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College, he taught Mexican kids and those who were in poverty. He was married to Claudia Taylor who helped in his campaign for the House of Representatives in 1937. He was ... talks were under way he died before seeing them of a heart-attack on January 22, 1973. Richard M. Nixon Nixon; born in California in 1913, he studied at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before devoting his time to the study of law. Marrying Patricia Ryan in 1940, he fathered two girls, Patricia and Julie. During the War of ... ballot. He chose Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota as his running mate. He campaigned hard against President Gerald R. Ford, debating with him three times. Carter won by 297 electoral votes to 241 for Ford. Carter worked hard to fight the continuing economic problems of inflation and unemployment. By the end of his administration, he could claim an increase ...
- 15: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow (he dropped the Thomas in 1879) attended (1873-74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The ... book, Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received the doctoral degree. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three daughters. Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer, Wilson also wrote ...
- 16: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- Presdent James Abram Garfield Born in a log cabin, James Abram Garfield rose by his own efforts to become a college president, a major general in the Civil War, a leader in Congress, and finally president of the United States. Four months after his inauguration, he was shot by an assassin ... Disciples of Christ. Enthusiasm for the Disciples caused Garfield to leave Geauga for a new school founded by the Disciples at Hiram, Ohio--the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (now Hiram College). On Sundays he preached and became so popular he was never in want of a pulpit. In 1852 he began to teach at the Eclectic. One of Garfield's pupils ... his journal, "We love each other . . . but feel inclined to be cautious." Garfield saved his money so that he could spend his last two years of school at an eastern college. He wrote to several and chose Williams College, in Massachusetts, because of one sentence in a letter from its famous president, Mark Hopkins: "We shall be glad to do ...
- 17: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow (he dropped the Thomas in 1879) attended (1873-74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The ... book, Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received the doctoral degree. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three daughters. Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer, Wilson also wrote ...
- 18: The Selection of Presidential Nominees
- ... each party's members in Congress, who were in the capital, choose the nominees. The Federalist party was the first political party to hold a congressional caucus. In creating the Electoral college, the constitutional convention explicitly rejected a proposal to have Congress elect the President. The Electoral College is still the center of the system, but all the related institutions and processes have changed dramatically. This is because the Constitution is so vague. It contains no ...
- 19: Welafre
- ... the nation's history. Although Kennedy and his vice-presidential running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, got less than half of the more than 68 million votes cast, they won the Electoral College vote. Kennedy thus became the 14th minority president. Because of the close vote, election results were challenged in many states. The official electoral vote was Kennedy 303, Nixon 219, and Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia 15. Kennedy's Family President Kennedy's great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland ...
- 20: The US Constitution
- The US Constitution The Unites States Constitution incorporates many significant figures. Three of these are: The Elastic clause, The Amendment Process, and the Electorial College To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the ... account of sex. To make an amendment, first 2/3 of either house must propose it. Then to ratify it, 3/4 of the state legislatures must approve it. The Electoral College system is a system used to elect the President. Each state is given a certain amount of Electoral votes. This number is based on how many congressmen that particular ...
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