Sweet Lands of Liberty: A Historiogenealogy of Selected Branches of the Field, Douglas and Stockton Families of England, Canada, and America |
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... votes . ( These elections took place when state legislators rather than the popular vote chose electors . ) Jefferson had become vice - president in 1796 when eleven New Hampshire electors failed to vote for Thomas Pinckney , their ...
... votes . ( These elections took place when state legislators rather than the popular vote chose electors . ) Jefferson had become vice - president in 1796 when eleven New Hampshire electors failed to vote for Thomas Pinckney , their ...
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... vote for Madison was a vote for war . A vote for DeWitt Clinton of New York , representing Northeast commercial interests whose pocketbooks would be crimped by war , was a vote for no war . Madison won by 128 electoral votes to 89 for ...
... vote for Madison was a vote for war . A vote for DeWitt Clinton of New York , representing Northeast commercial interests whose pocketbooks would be crimped by war , was a vote for no war . Madison won by 128 electoral votes to 89 for ...
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... vote [ on the Lecompton Constitution ] for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery be voted down or voted up . I do not understand his declaration ... to be intended by him as other than as an apt definition of the policy he ...
... vote [ on the Lecompton Constitution ] for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery be voted down or voted up . I do not understand his declaration ... to be intended by him as other than as an apt definition of the policy he ...
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