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Josh Hawley's Different Writing On Contested Elections


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“And it was here that the country s political division became a political crisis,” Sen. Josh Hawley wrote nine years ago. “Because they regarded Jefferson and his party as a threat to the Constitution, Federalist congressmen returned to Washington determined to deny him the presidency, regardless of what the voters wanted.”
Hawley, then a law professor, recounts the story of the election of 1800 at length in the 2012 piece: the famously bitter campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson over what exactly the federal government’s scope and purpose should be, the attempts to portray Jefferson as an atheist Jacobin, the Federalist Party’s strategy to deny him the presidency through the first version of the Electoral College system, the contemporaneous concerns about civil war breaking out, and, finally, the Federalists’ voluntary concession to the reality of Jefferson’s victory. He describes that election as “one of the most undera ....

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