FairVote - 12th amendment. After the 1800 Presidential Election, the 12th Amendment was adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vicepresidential candidate Aaron Burr.
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Pros: Mercenaries can often help alleviate the urgent need for trained manpower in a prolonged high-casualty conflict which can also have the bonus of not creating too much dissatisfaction amongst the populace against the leader. History even gives us an example of effective mercenary armies.
Cons: Mercenaries have no loyalty whatsoever even to their employer. Mercenaries are never particularly the kind of soldiers that a leader should ever truly employ in an actual battle, mainly because mercenaries throughout history have had a habit of deserting their employers when an actual
The US had many attempts at compromise with varying levels of sucess before the Civil War. However, when Lincoln was elected president (on the platform of stopping the expansion of slavery), the South lost hope and seceded.
There is always a solution other than war, however, in this case, war had been a looming possibility for quite some time, and compromise probably would've only pushed the war back a year or two.
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