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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Take Out:

- writing utensil

- notes

Today:

- Election of 1800

- Marbury v. Madison

Homework: Read & Answer Questions on

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Right Now...

- How would we evaluate John Adams's

Presidency?

A success? A failure?

Somewhere in between?

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The Election of 1800

Elections Until this Point...

Washington 1789 1.

Washington 1792 2.

Adams 1796 3.

????? 1800 4.

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Election of 1800

- bitter fight between the 2 political parties

FederalistsDemocratic -

Republicans

View on

Government?

Strong Central

Government

States & Local

Governments

should share power

Who's who?!

George

Washington,

John Adams,

Alexander

Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson,

James Madison,

Aaron Burr

Foreign

Policy?pro - British pro - France

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The Candidates

John

Adams

Thomas

Jefferson

Charles

Pinckney

Aaron

Burr

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Federalists:

Democratic

-

Republicans:

HOW do we elect a President?

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Jefferson beats Adams by 8 votes!

Jefferson 73

Burr 73

Adams 65

Pinckney 63

Jay 1

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But... Jefferson & Burr tie!

In the case of a tie:

The Constitution

states:

House of

Representatives

will vote!

Election of 1800

- House spent 7 days, and took 35 votes

- Hamilton took matters into his own hands

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- Hamilton convinced enough Federalists

to cast blank ballots

- Jefferson wins!

- Aaron Burr = VP

Election of 1800

- pointed out flaw in Electoral College

- enter: the 12th Amendment

- votes now separate for Pres & VP

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- during his presidency: Adams appointed

John Marshall: Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court

The Aftermath...

Judiciary Act of 1801

- Adams transformed the judicial branch

- created a number of new district

courts

- then, appointed Federalist judges

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Judiciary Act of 1801

- Adams transformed the judicial branch

- created a number of new district

courts

- then, appointed Federalist judges

- called "Midnight Judges"

Why would this be a problem?

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Why would this be a problem?

- angers Jefferson, & many Dem-Reps

...but is there an answer?

- some of the documents were late

- not delivered by the time Adams

left office

- leads to: one of the most important

supreme court cases of all time

- called Marbury vs. Madison (1803)

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- leads to: one of the most important

supreme court cases of all time

- called Marbury vs. Madison (1803)

- Marbury: one of the midnight judges

- Madison: James Madison

- at the time: Jefferson's secretary

of State

- fight over delivery of papers

- court case soon followed @SupremeCrt

- Chief Justice John Marshall:

confirmed idea of judicial review

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- fight over delivery of papers

- court case soon followed @SupremeCrt

- Chief Justice John Marshall: confirmed

idea of judicial review

judicial review: ability of the Supreme

Court to declare an act of Congress

unconstitutional

Right Now...

- Read through "Reviewing the Case"

HW: Read & answer questions 1 - 4