Excerpt from America of the Americans Thanks to such biographies as From Log Cabin to White House, the uninformed imagination pictures the election Of the President in a manner woefully divergent from fact. It is true that the constitutional qualifications for that high Office are exceed ingly meagre; all are eligible who have attained the age Of thirty-five and are natural-born citizens there was profound truth as well as satire in Theodore Parker's assertion that any one is in danger Of becoming President but the extra ...
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Excerpt from America of the Americans Thanks to such biographies as From Log Cabin to White House, the uninformed imagination pictures the election Of the President in a manner woefully divergent from fact. It is true that the constitutional qualifications for that high Office are exceed ingly meagre; all are eligible who have attained the age Of thirty-five and are natural-born citizens there was profound truth as well as satire in Theodore Parker's assertion that any one is in danger Of becoming President but the extra-constitutional qualifications are now so numerous that a man's progress from a log cabin to the White House is beset with a thousand Obstacles. In the strict meaning of the phrase, there is no popular vote for the President of the United States. Out Of a total popu lation Of about a hundred millions only some fifteen millions enjoy merely an indirect participation in the choice of the Chief Executive, and many Of the occupants Of the presidential Chair have been seated there by a minority of all the votes cast. These minority Presidents have included such rulers as Lincoln, Garfield, and Cleveland. The presidential electors who were responsible for Lincoln's success in 1860 represented a popular vote of as compared with the votes cast in favour of the other three candidates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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