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Article: Learning from experience.(elections)
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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The men who wrote the U.S. Constitution and created America's system for selecting a president and vice president were brilliant. But even the wisest people cannot foresee the future. Nothing comparable to the United States' method for choosing a president and vice president had ever been tried before the Founding Fathers developed it. Only actual experience with it could reveal all the problems it would encounter.
Many of these difficulties stemmed from the growth of America's political parties. The authors of the Constitution were aware of political parties, but they did not consider them to be a useful of the democratic process, as we do today. Instead, the ...