Re: Alternatives to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (on

"Dan Goodman" <dsgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Tim McDaniel wrote:
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> > Surely Congress had no part in nominating Presidents or electing them
> > (unless the Electoral College did not produce a majority)!  Certainly
> > party conventions could not elect a president.
>
> I believe candidates used to be chosen by Congressional caucuses.





That was the norm until Andrew Jackson's day or  thereabouts.

Iirc the first nominating Convention was by the Anti-Masonic Party in
1832.



--

Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

Q) In the Roman Civil Wars, why did all the bachelors fight for Sulla?

A) Because they weren't the Marian kind.