This election following John Adam's first and last term ended in the most contested U.S. election in which Adam, so angry, he refused to attend the inauguration. He was called an anarchist as Jefferson was labeled an atheist. This was the hottest campaign in America as The United States was just rising an needed to be healed a shadows of the Civil War were first darenig the scene. In Jefferson's inaugural address he said "We are all Federalists and Democratic Republicans."
At that time the Constitution required the president and vice-president be elected on the same time ticket, with the popular vote going to Jefferson and with Aaron Burr the vice-president since there was a tie and the House of Representatives calling for several new votes. The 12th Amendment made a change with Congress making the decision if ever again there was a tie.
At this time emotions, temperament and hatred had never before so very high. With Washington's inauguration the people wanted to make him a king, but he wisely rejected since the colonists had left Europe to avoid imperialism and the power of the established Church of England, the Christian mother church of the worldwide Anglican Community.
During the 1800 election name-calling was the name of the game. But at least it wasn't bloodshed as in foreign nations when many people were killed over elections through mob mentality flaming..
See The Return of Aaren Burr, a Ghostly Story.
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