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Episode 6: Abraham Lincoln was our first "minority" president -- The election of 1860 had three candidates
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Closing music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The William Tell Overture
This podcast continues with a “Constitutional Minute”
It escapes our notice that the election of Abraham Lincoln was a seminal event. Not just because it triggered secession.
The election of Lincoln was the birth of political parties as we now know that term. The nation was emerging from what historians have labeled “the era of good feeling” a monumental misnomer if there ever was one. It earned its name because there were no political parties. The House of Representatives comprised Federalists and “Anti” Federalists with a smattering of Whigs (Anti-Jacksonian-democrats).
There were no political parties in The Senate, there was no direct election of senators that had to wait for the 17th Amendment 1913.
During this so-called era of “good feeling” it forced two presidential elections into the House of Representatives 1801 & 1824. Both times in a dispute over electoral ballots.
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