The correct answer is that <span>the public opinion would prefer the national popular vote as a way of selecting the president. That is because it sometimes happens that someone wins the general vote but loses the election because of the electoral votes system. Of course this also depends on who wins and when.</span>
the compromise failed to pass because of the opposition by both pro-slavery southern Democrats, which was led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.
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the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand.
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