In the 1920s, many rural banks failed because banks had speculated in stocks. This in turn, led to failure of such banks and then soon after the Great Depression followed.
The constitutional amendment that requires electors to cast separate votes for president and vice president is THE TWELFTH {12} AMENDMENT.
The twelfth amendment was enacted in 1804 and it requires that electors should case separate ballot for the president and the vice president. If it now happens than no candidate receives a majority, then the house can choose the top three candidates for the president and the top two candidates for the vice president.
The seven senators who opposed the deal of the century—all of them Federalists—objected to Jefferson's exercise of executive authority in the absence of any specific constitutional authorization. Delaware senator Samuel White warned further that relocating settlers two or three thousand miles away from the capital might alienate their affections for the Union.
During the (first) American revolution, soldiers who joined the Continental Army during the spring or summer but went AWOL in the fall or winter were known as "summer soldiers".
<span>Many of the "summer soldiers" were farmers who would join up with the Army when their crops were planted, fight with them during the summer, and go back home to help with the harvest. Others would stay with the Army through the harvest, but sneak off in the middle of the night once the weather got cold. </span>
<span>Meanwhile, the people who supported the revolutionaries when the revolution was going well -- but not otherwise -- were called "sunshine patriots". </span>
<span>So in the famous passage from "The Crisis" where Thomas Paine wrote: </span>
<span>The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country </span>
<span>he was talking -- quite literally in the former case -- about the fair-weather friends of the Revolution.</span>
