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Cordiality, however, did not survive that first Administration. When Adams succeeded Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the leader of the opposition Republican Party, became Vice President. A split within the dominant Federalist Party caused Jefferson to come in second in the balloting for President in the Electoral College. Thus he was automatically named Vice President. This mixup could not be repeated after 1804 when the Twelfth Amendment was passed providing that the two offices had to be distinguished on the ballot...
...entirely clear, and precedents are few. Impeachment first appeared in England in 1386 as a way of reaching the King's advisers (the King was considered incapable of wrong), and it has often been a political procedure rather than a judicial one. Said Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist: "There will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of the parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt...
...Constitution rejected as both impossible and unnecessary the idea that all classes of citizens should have their own representatives in Congress. They opted instead for elected representatives, who were subject to the ire or approval of a variety of individual voters. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist: "It is said to be necessary, that all classes of citizens should have some of their own number in the representative body, in order that their feelings and interests may be the better understood and attended to. But we have seen that this will never happen under any arrangement that leaves...
...dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive la Québec libre!" during a 1967 visit there, or simply too burdened by the emergency caused by separatist terrorism. The former seems probable...
...defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always been a staunch federalist, with little sympathy for those who place province over union-and less for those separates who want to quit the union altogether. Moreover, the government was said to have information that the terrorists' next step would be selective assassination of political leaders. Adding to the urgency was the knowledge...