The Election of 1800
The presidential election of 1800 was very similar to the 2020 presidential election in that it was very close and politics as in partisan politics had its 'birth". You might think the 2020 presidential election was the absolute worst one in history. You might be right if the Supreme Court decides by not deciding allows a president is effectively above the law. If the former president is reelected this November, and even if he loses the consequences of complaints about a rigged process will not stop. Until 1845 States could hold their elections for President within a 34 day period before the first Wednesday in December. Can you imagine if that had been the process in 2020. The country was blessed when George Washington was elected, reelected and then retired from office. Thomas Jefferson was elected President in 1800 for two terms. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" asserts Jefferson in his well-known support of the "agrarian ideal,...