Saddling the president with a VP potentially from the opposite party is the one part of the Founding Fathers' original design for presidential elections that was such an immediate disaster they amended the Constitution to scrap it almost immediately, in 1804.https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1125434561171722242 …
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The Twelfth Amendment was ratified by the required number of states on June 15, 1804. Less than a month later, the sitting Vice President - the target of the Amendment - killed the opposing party's most prominent figure, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel.
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So the idea that a rogue VP not loyal to the president could be a danger up to & including violence was hardly a fanciful one to the people voting in 1804 to amend the Constitution to have no more Aaron Burrs.
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Replying to @c0d3breakr_ @roxberry
sorry for the spoiler
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