In my opinion I think U.S president today have less power if they could have than before. The presidents back then would hold office until retirement or until death. Today they can hold office for only two terms for which each is four years long. They still cannot make decisions on their own they need the approval of the two other governing branches. I think the framers of the constitution would be satisfied knowing this is so and that the constitution has been something that has been used to base off democracy appropriately.
John Bell, the Constitutional Party candidate for president represented the border state of Tennessee.
<span>John C. Breckinridge, the then incumbent Vice-President, a native of Kentucky, was the Southern Democrats' candidate for president. </span>
<span>Stephen Arnold Douglas - The incumbent Senator from Illinois, was the Northern Democrats' candidate. </span>
<span>Abraham Lincoln, from Illinois, was the Republican party nominee for President. </span>
<span>Lincoln received 180 Electoral Votes, carrying 18 states: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. </span>
<span>Breckinridge won 11 states -- 72 Electoral Votes. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North carolina, South Carolina and Texas. </span>
<span>Bell won the Electoral Votes of 3 states -- 39; Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. </span>
<span>Douglas received the Electoral Vote of 1 state - Missouri. (12)
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Farmers faced many problems in the late 1800s. Some of them included unpredictable weather leading to ruined crops, transportation problems making it hard to get crops to market, and many found it difficult to get credit.
