The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789–2020

Notes

1

The Gazette of the United States Saturday, May 2, 1789, 3.

2

Massachusetts Centinel, 20 December, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788 – 1790, Volume I, eds. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, 570.

3

“Resolved, that in order to prevent a dismemberment of the Union and to secure our liberties and those of our posterity, it is necessary that a revision of the Federal Constitution be obtained as soon as possible…That in order that the friends of amendments of the Federal Constitution, who are inhabitants of this state, may act in concert it is necessary and it is hereby recommended to the several counties in the state to appoint committees who may correspond one with ...