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	Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election
		United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting on Inauguration Day (January 20th of the year after the election).
		Jump to: navigation, search United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting on Inauguration Day (January 20th of the year after the election).
		The United States hold elections to federal offices every two years; midterm elections is the name given to elections when the United States House of Representatives and one third of the US Senate are being elected, but not the President.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election (1010 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1820 - The Jiggies Reference Guide
		See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1820, History of the United States (1776-1865)
		Monroe ran virtually unopposed, though a single vote for John Quincy Adams (then Secretary of State) was cast by one elector.
		(The belief that this was to ensure that George Washington remained the only president elected unanimously by the U.S. Electoral College seems to be a myth.)
	www.jiggies.com /reference/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1820 (137 words)

	Election 2004
		2000: For the first time in United States history, in a close and controversial election, the President of the United States is chosen based on a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
		It is possible, mathematically, to win the popular vote and lose the presidential election if the candidate does not win enough Electoral votes.
		1877: After the presidential election of 1876, the Electoral Commission gives disputed Electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, despite the fact that Samuel Tilden wins the popular vote.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/election2004/history_of_voting.htm (930 words)

	1820
		March 3 & March 6 - The Missouri Compromise becomes law in the United States.
		List of ships of the United States Navy
		March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
	www.fact-library.com /1820.html (442 words)

	U.S. presidential election article - U.S. presidential election President the United States elections administered Results Voter - What-Means.com
		The election of the United States President is governed by Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution, as amended by Amendments XII, XXII, and XXIII.
		Voter turnout in Presidential elections has been on the decline in recent years, although it bounced back slightly during the 2000 election from 1996's lows.
		The President and Vice President are elected on the same ticket by the U.S. Electoral College, whose members are elected directly from each state; the President and Vice President serve four-year terms.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/U.S._presidential_election (467 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The election marked the first time an incumbent president was reelected while his political party increased its numbers in both houses of Congress since Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 election.
		The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain-Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate).
		Although the overall result of the election was not challenged by the Kerry campaign, third-party presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik obtained a recount in Ohio.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004 (5561 words)

	U.S. presidential election results -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In elections from 1789 to 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which vice president.
		Election Reform Debate in the U.S. Amid calls for a radical overhaul of the U.S. electoral system, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2001.
		The 2000 presidential election exposed several deficiencies in the conduct of American elections: the possibility that a candidate could win more popular votes than his opponent and still lose the electoral college tally—Bush...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344757?tocId=9344757 (1042 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		Provision of Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act limiting to $1,000 the amount that independent committees may expend to further the election of a presidential candidate financing his campaign with public funds is an impermissible limitation of freedom of speech and association protected by the First Amendment.
		Provision of Federal Election Campaign Act requiring that independent corporate campaign expenditures be financed by voluntary contributions to a separate segregated fund violates the First Amendment as applied to a corporation organized to promote political ideas, having no stockholders, and not serving as a front for a business corporation or union.
		Franks, 120 U.S. 678 (1887), an attempt was made to distinguish the Harris case and to apply the statute to a conspiracy directed at aliens within a State, but the provision was held not enforceable in such limited manner.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/acts.html (7331 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1808
		In the U.S. presidential election of 1808, the (Democratic-)Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
		Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804.
		This election was the first of only two instances in American history in which a new President would be selected but the incumbent Vice President would continue to serve.
	www.tocatch.info /en/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1808.htm (329 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1804
		The U.S. presidential election of 1804 pitted incumbent (Democratic-)Republican President Thomas Jefferson against Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
		Jefferson easily defeated Pinckney in the first presidential election conducted following the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
		Because of the Twelfth Amendment, presidential electors were required to specify in their votes their choice for President and Vice President; previously, electors voted only for President, with the person who came in second becoming the Vice President.
	www.tocatch.info /en/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1804.htm (255 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1840
		The U.S. presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison.
		This election was unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had been or would become President of the United States: current President Martin Van Buren; President-elect William Henry Harrison; Vice-President-elect John Tyler, who would succeed Harrison upon his death; and James Polk, who received one electoral vote for Vice President.
		Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (July 27, 2005).
	www.1bx.com /en/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1840.htm (552 words)

	Wikinfo John Quincy Adams
		He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party.
		The decision in the Presidential Election of 1824 fell, according to the U.S. Constitution, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the States.
		Adams was then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=John_Quincy_Adams (546 words)

	Wikinfo James Monroe
		Monroe, the last American Revolutionary War veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
		The Federalist Party had died out, the Whig Party had not yet risen, and practically every politician belonged to what is now known as the Democratic Party.
		Mount Monroe, one of a number of mountains named for Presidents of the United States in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=James_Monroe (289 words)

	testeg41x
		Hunter's Lessee, 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.)304 (1816), remarked on "the importance, and even necessity of uniformityof decisions [348] throughout the whole United States, upon all subjectswith the purview of the constitution." Discuss to what degree the "necessityof uniformity of decisions" asserted itself in U.S. Supreme Court decisionsbefore 1878.
		Explain the historical origins of the eleventh article of amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
		Explain the historical origins of the twelfth article of amendmentto the U.S. Constitution.
	www.public.asu.edu /~tjdavis/courses/materials/testeg41x.htm (893 words)

	1820 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November - U.S. presidential election: James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
		March 3 and 6 - Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law.
		1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
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	Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election, 1820
		Presidential electoral votes by state The U.S. presidential election of 1792 was the second presidential election in the United States, and the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors (in addition to newly added states Kentucky and Vermont).
		Presidential electoral votes by state The U.S. presidential election of 1804 was the first presidential election conducted following the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
		The U.S. presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in U.S. history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed (after the presidential elections of 1789 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-1820 (3338 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1824
		See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1824
		However, no candidate earned the 131 electoral votes required for victory, so the United States House of Representatives decided the election on February 9, 1825.
		Other elections: 1812, 1816, 1820, 1824, 1828, 1832, 1836
	www.fastload.org /u./U.S._presidential_election,_1824.html (150 words)

	History: United States History - Stats
		Elections: 1789 1792 1796 1800 1804 1808 1812 1816 1820 1824 1828 1832 1836 1840 1844 1848 1852 1856 1860 1864 1868 1872 1876 1880 1884 1888 1892 1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996
		"The World Almanac Of The U. A." World Almanac Books, New Jersey.
	www.usahistory.com /stats (66 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Ohio
		Ohio was also a deciding factor in the 1948 presidential election when Democrat Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey (who had won the state four years earlier) and in the 1976 presidential election when Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Republican Gerald Ford by a slim margin in Ohio and took the election.
		In 1754, France and Great Britain fought a war known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
		Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River (with the border being at the 1793 low-water mark on the north side of the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Ohio (2721 words)

	Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3: [Selection of Electors, 1796--1832], McPherson v. Blacker
		Without pursuing the subject further, it is sufficient to observe that, while most of the States adopted the general ticket system, the district method obtained in Kentucky until 1824; in Tennessee and Maryland until 1832; in Indiana in 1824 and 1828; in Illinois in 1820 and 1824; and in Maine in 1820, 1824 and 1828.
		Jefferson, adopted the general ticket, at least "until some uniform mode of choosing a President and Vice-President of the United States shall be prescribed by an amendment to the Constitution." Laws Va. 1799, 1800, p.
		In the fourth presidential election, Virginia, under the advice of Mr.
	press-pubs.uchicago.edu /founders/documents/a2_1_2-3s6.html (2721 words)

	United States: History
		the territorial gains and westward movement of the United States were focusing legislative argument on the extension of slavery to the new territories and breaking down the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
		In the 1820s and 30s the advance of democracy brought manhood suffrage to many states and virtual direct election of the President, and party nominating conventions replaced the caucus.
		In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0861712.html (13589 words)

	Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States of America
		The only elections which resulted in neither the President nor the Vice President changing were 1792 (Washington/Adams), 1820 (Monroe/Tompkins), 1916 (Wilson/Marshall), 1936 (Roosevelt/Garner), 1956 (Eisenhower/Nixon), 1972 (Nixon/Agnew), 1984 (Reagan/Bush), and 1996 (Clinton/Gore).
		Prior to ratification of the 25th Amendment, a vacancy in the office of Vice President remained until the next presidential election.
		Therefore, no gaps are shown between the end of one term and the beginning of another, even when the successor is not sworn in immediately.
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	John Quincy Adams - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Adams received one electoral vote in the presidential election of 1820.
		Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral votes in the Presidential election of 1824, none of the candidates were able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives, which to the surprise of many elected Adams over rival Andrew Jackson.
		In 1841, Adams represented the Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court of the United States and successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship where they were being held as illegal slaves, should not be returned to Spain, but returned home as free people.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/John_Quincy_Adams (1055 words)

	Governor Roger Baldwin
		Before the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Baldwin gave compelling legal arguments centering on the basic liberties of human beings and the free status, especially in the United States, of the illegally enslaved.
		During Baldwin's term as Governor, much of the country was absorbed with concerns surrounding the annexation of Texas and the upcoming Presidential election.
		Baldwin, Roger S. Argument of Roger S. Baldwin of New Haven: Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans of the Amistad.
	www.cslib.org /gov/baldwinrs.htm (2099 words)

	Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election, 1820
		After the election of George Washington as the first President of the United States in 1789, Congress passed the first of many laws organizing the government, and adopted a bill of rights in the form of ten amendments to the new Constitution—the United States Bill of Rights.
		Portrait of U.S. Vice President Daniel D Tompkins Daniel D[ecius?] Tompkins (June 21, 1774 â€“ June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States.
		Portrait of U.S. Vice President Daniel D Tompkins Daniel D[ecius?] Tompkins (June 21, 1774–June 11, 1825) was entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-1820 (3338 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Q. Adams
		Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral votes in the Presidential election of 1824, none of the candidates were able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives, which to the surprise of many elected Adams over rival Andrew Jackson.
		Adams received one electoral vote in the presidential election of 1820.
		Adams appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Q.-Adams (772 words)

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