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SECOND CHAPTER
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONVENTION SYSTEM
9. AFTER the collapse of the Congressional Caucus
in 1824, one era in the political life of the United
States came to an end; another was beginning. But
for the moment the political stage was all ruins and
chaos: the old parties were broken up, the new ones
were not yet in existence; leadership was doomed; the
extra-constitutional machinery of the caucus, which
was the base of operations of the parties and the leaders,
went to pieces, while the new base was scarcely outlined.
This disorder broke out manifestly during the still pend-
ing fight for the presidential nomination. The fiasco
of the last Congressional Caucus confused still further
the situation.

Agitation
on the
presidential
election of
1824.

Instead of the usual recommendation of a single candi-
date, public manifestations occurred in various quarters
in favour now of one and now of another of the several
competitors. They proceeded alike from the State
Legislatures, from semi-official gatherings of the mem-
bers of Legislatures meeting in caucus, from State
conventions composed solely of delegates, and finally
from large meetings of citizens. Everywhere people ex-
pressed their opinions, declared their preferences, and
they did so with a feverish eagerness, as if they wished
to make up for the long abstention enforced upon them

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Publication Information: Book Title: Democracy and the Party System in the United States. Contributors: M. Ostrogorski - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: 16.
    
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