Harry Potter Morning Light

There were only 13 states in North America when it became independent, and there were only 16 states in addition to the 3 states that were added later. If the principle of "one state, one vote" is followed, how can there be 71 votes in the upper hand?

Before the United States acquired Louisiana, the United States practiced a representative system. Voting in each state was not directly elected by voters, but by the Electoral College elected by the state legislature. The president who won more than half and the most votes was elected president, and the second was the vice President, in this way, a state will have 4 votes, or even more.

This system began in 1788. At the beginning, the number of electoral votes held by each state in the United States was equal to the number of senators and representatives of the state in Congress. The Senate elected two members from each state, and the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was determined according to the population ratio of each state.

It is not the population, but the proportion of the population. Citizens and voters are not the same concept. It does not mean that all American citizens have the right to vote. For example, women do not have the right to vote. more and more. Georgia has 2 members of the House of Representatives on the basis of 2 members of the Senate, for a total of 4 votes.

Before the start of the election, some people expressed uneasiness. In their initial design, the founding fathers believed that the one with the most votes was the best, and the one with the second most votes was the worst. It did not take into account the political opinions between the president and the vice president.

When John Adams and Jefferson served under Washington, there were many conflicts due to different political opinions, and Hamilton was added in the middle. Although Hamilton has almost missed the presidency for various reasons, he is the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the founder of the US national debt system.

The War of Independence left the treasury of the newly formed federal government in a deficit, and there was no international credibility at all. When all the states were unable to repay their debts, Hamilton proposed that the federal government should assume and repay all the foreign debts of the states.

This system was rejected at the beginning, but Hamilton insisted that only by establishing a unified national debt can the United States establish international credibility.

All in all, the second president, John Adams, had no hope of being re-elected. He had no obvious achievements in domestic affairs and foreign affairs, especially after passing the "Alien and Sedition Act" that stifled the freedom of the press. It's all over the place. Even though he often walks into pubs and drinks with ordinary Americans.

Taverns are often also polling stations, which is not only good for handing out free drinks to voters, but also where people get their news, newspapers and the latest political pamphlets.

The Democratic-Republican Jefferson seldom went to that kind of occasion. Compared with John Adams, Jefferson was pro-French. The 1797 xyz incident occurred during Adams' tenure, including John Marshall and Charles Cotsworth · Pinckney.

In the election of 1800, there were 138 electors from 16 states, and the number of votes that could be elected was 70. If there were no 4 votes from Georgia, then Jefferson and Burr could only get 69 votes, not more than half. He was about to enter a final contest of five, as required by the Constitution, including Jefferson, Burr, John Adams (65 votes), Charles Cotsworth Pinckney (64 votes), and John S. Jay (1 vote).

This will go into a tug of war and put Jefferson in a very difficult contest, if it's a two man contest the federalists will vote for Burr, if it's a five man contest they'll have more Choose, and even get John Adams re-elected.

Bonaparte had already explained how Jefferson’s “little trick” was used before, and then came the four problematic ballots. According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the elector should list all the electors, indicating The number of votes each person gets, they should also sign to prove, and hand over the sealed list to the seat of the government of the United States and the President of the Senate.

This can be understood as a "confirmation certificate", which must be attached to the elector when casting the ballot, but the four questionable electoral votes do not comply with the provisions of Article 2 of the Constitution.

The envelope submitted by Georgia in 1800 contained only one checklist, not two, meaning that one side of the checklist was signed by Governor James Jackson, confirming the state's electoral vote, and the back was the state's electoral vote. , the only result information that can prove the electoral vote appears on the back of the confirmation certificate.

This document did not meet the formal requirements set out in the Constitution, and all electors did not sign for confirmation "by themselves", which does not indicate whether the list represents the true wishes of the electors. Controversy will lead to this paper document may only be a list signed by one of the parties.

In 1800, Georgia belonged to a frontier area, and the law was not sound. Immediately after Georgia violated the formalism, Jefferson finally ruled that Georgia had 4 votes as the president of the Senate.

It was risky for Jefferson to do so. Subsequent newspapers publicly announced the problem of the Georgia ballot and also brought up Jefferson's domineering attitude.

Napoleon did similar things, but instead of elections, he became the first ruling by a coup. The constitution stipulates that the first ruling is not allowed to personally lead troops, so he made Berthier the commander-in-chief, and he "followed the army" to go out and win. Battle of Marengo.

In fact, after Jefferson made the ruling, Georgia could also raise objections, but Georgia remained silent.

John Adams was the first president to occupy the White House, before the capital of the United States was in Philadelphia. The Federalists attacked the Democrats and Republicans in the newspapers because of the constitution's compromise on slavery, and Georgia is a slave state. They would not approve of Adams of the Federalists.

Originally because of the xyz incident, when Adams detailedly described to Congress the French "so-and-so" and other things that blackmailed the United States for its own convenience, the United States was deeply humiliated and furious. The Federalists did their best to ride this fury of public opinion, crafting a sedition bill against the opposition:

In order to defend against the enemy, he would rather spend a lot of money than ask for a penny in return.

Let Jefferson and his French supporters be angry, there is nothing like a war to unite a country in support of its president.

Congress then promptly drafted recruits, creating an army of 50,000 men, at least on paper.

However, in February 1799, Adams made a 180-degree turn and declared "peace, not war." He sent William Vance Murray to France and disbanded Hamilton's expanded army.

Adams' offer of peace with France completely alienated Hamilton and many Federalist leaders, who were all confused by Adams' sharp shift in course.

Adams inherited the government formed by Washington. Compared with Adams, Hamilton was more in line with the candidate for the "monarch" in their hearts.

Each state has its own election timetable. In the 1800 election, New York took the lead in elections. New York was Hamilton's hometown, and he proposed to make New York the first capital of the United States. When Burr and his Democratic-Republicans defeated in New York Adams only became angry when he killed Adams. Without New York's electoral votes, his re-election looked elusive, so he fired two of Hamilton's men in his administration, one of whom Marshall replaced as Secretary of State, and Hamilton published a pamphlet publicly claiming that Adams was in Not emotionally suited for a second term.

Although Napoleon brought the army with him when he launched the Brumaire coup, Adams had nothing to do with disbanding Hamilton's army. The Brumaire coup happened in November, and Adams started to do it in February, unless he has the ability to predict.

But Americans like to join in the fun. It is said that 100,000 people gathered on Capitol Hill to wait for the election results.

"Do you think Americans dare to rush to Capitol Hill?" Georgiana asked while lying on the bed, drinking frozen juice.

"What do you think?" Leon asked with a teasing smile.

She tried to imagine that image.

"That's crazy," she muttered in disbelief.

"Are you sober?" He asked with ulterior motives.

She didn't answer.

So he got up and blew out the candle in the bedroom.