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The Constitution and the 1824
Title: The Constitution and the 1824
Category: History
Details: Words: 868 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Constitution and the 1824
The Constitution and the 1824 Presidential Election Processes
In all my readings on the Electoral College and the Constitution, I have found that there are several differences between what the Constitutions meant when the election process was defined and how the 1824 election interpreted them to mean. The Constitution has systematic instructions for the election of our President and what to do if there is a conflict with the Electoral College. While in the 1824, they added another …showed first 75 words of 868 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 868 total…come the conclusion that the election process that
we use today is not exactly what the Founding Fathers thought it should be. Thanks to Andrew Jackson’s claim that he won the popular vote in 1824. Some Americans now prefer to use the popular vote to the Electoral College to elect our President. What if the Electoral College had not existed during the 2000 Presidential Election? How many times would we have had to recount the votes?
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