. La storia della democrazia americana, politica e industriale . solo le maggioranze dovrebbero besupreme, come la Bestpolicy, ma anche le thatmajusionseverit erano alwaysright: vox populi, voxDeir il suffragio più ampio dopo il 1825 ha portato altri cambiamenti politici. 1. Il franchising è stato utilizzato più direttamente. In un numero incorruttante di Stati, i governatori e i giudici sono stati scelti dal popolo invece che dai legislatori. Così, anche degli elettori presidenziali :nel 1800, dieci stati dei sedici scelsero gli elettori per legislatura; nel 1828 solo due dei ventiquattro lo fecero, e dopo questo l'unico Stato a continuare il pract

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. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . merely thatmajorities ought to besupreme, as the bestpolicy, but even thatmajorities were alwaysright: vox populi, voxDeir The wider suffrage after 1825 brought other politicalchanges. 1. The franchise was used more directly. In an in-creasing number of States, the governors andjudges were chosen by the people instead of bythe legislatures. So, too, of presidential electors :in 1800, ten States of the sixteen chose electors by legislatures;in 1828 only two of the twenty-four did so, and after thatthe only State to continue the practice was South Carolina. 2. The presidency gained power. It was no longer filled, even in theory, by a select coterie. Jacksons friends likedto call their leader the chosen Tribune of the people.The Nation found it easier to express its will in choosingone man than in choosing a Congress in hundreds of localunits, often largely upon local issues. 3. The two matters just mentioned combined to bringout a larger vote. The election of 1789 was fiercely contested. The Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Resultsof widerfranchise k 456 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY in New York, but only one vote was cast for every 27inhabitants. In 1828 that State cast a vote for every sixinhabitants. Pennsylvania cast 47, 000 votes in 1824, but150, 000 in 1828. In Massachusetts only one man in 19went to the polls in 1824, but after 1828 the proportion wasrarely under 1 in 8. 4. Property qualifications for office disappeared rapidly, and test oaths were abolished so that Jews and Catholicscould hold office. 5. The union of State and Church in Connecticut andMassachusetts was overthrown, and the greater democracyin politics in New England brought social changes there.After the extension of the suffrage in Connecticut in 1818, public officers ceased to wear cockaded hats, powderedwigs, or knee-breeches and silk stockings. Andrew Jackson dominated America for twelve years(1829—1841), for his control reached over into the

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