
Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis
Lectures in History
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Lincoln Wins the Electoral College
There is no provision in the constitution that says you have to have a two party system, right? There were four parties. And this was pretty normal in nineteenth century. Almost all of the elections before this one featured more than two candidates for the presidency. Of the previous ten elections, and at least four candidates in four different elections before this.
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