The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy

Name: The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy
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ISBN: 9780700619078

ISBN-10: 0700619070

ISBN-13: 9780700619078

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jeffrey L. Pasley

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This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar--parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the political mores of the day forbade it). Yet for all that, Jeffrey L. Pasley contends, the election of 1796 was "absolutely seminal," setting the stage for all of American politics to follow. Challenging much of the conventional understanding of this election, Pasley argues that Federalist and Democratic-Republican were deeply meaningful categories for politicians and citizens of the 1790s, even if the names could be inconsistent and the…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 504
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Editors' Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Unintentional Campaign



A New Republic and Its Discontents



Popular Politics in a Postcolonial Nation



The Jay Treaty Crisis and the Origins of the 1796 Campaign



From Measures to "that man": Toward the Presidential Option for Political Change



The Long Goodbye: Finding Candidates in the Shadow of Washington



The First Culture Wan Themes and Issues of the Federalist Campaign against Thomas Jefferson



His Rotundity: Themes and Issues of the Democratic-Republican Campaign against John Adams



Taking the Electoral College to School: How Presidential Electors Helped Create the National Presidential Election Rather Than Preventing It



The Party Racers: Voting for President in 1796


Epilogue: Kiss My Ass and Go to Hell


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index