Essay On Presidential Nominating

In an era where constant challenges permeated thirteen colonies, there were colonists who searched for peace. Like an eclipse in the sky, peace for these people was never truly believable. Great Britain at the time had occupied these colonies in the Americas, and their King, King George III, perceived them as a simple means of economic investment that would produce huge profits. As a result, these colonies were demanded to pay in trade and always had to pay up for tax imports and exports. However, after consecutive imposing tax acts, along with several casualties, the Americans felt like it was time for a change. It was not until the famous author Thomas Paine wrote, The Common Sense, that Americans believed that there was something “absurd, …show more content…
One in particular, the presidential nominating process, has tremendously increased and is a significant factor in how a president is chosen. To begin the start of the new Constitution, from 1789 to 1796, the presidential nominating process relied on the elite party leaders to elect the president. Seeing how this only gave the power to a handful of citizens, it ended very quick. Starting from 1800 to 1824, the process then changed and relied on the congressional party caucuses. However, this process also quickly ended because the people were not given much voice. Instead, the US then tried to rely on state legislatures for the presidential nominating process, but lasted only from 1824 to 1832 because state legislatures were either unresponsive, inactive, or corrupt. From 1836 to 1905, Americans relied on the national nominating conventions for the presidential nominating process. Although it took a long timeline of failures to figure out how to run a proper convention, the citizens finally took hold of a working convention. In fact, from 1905 to the present, we have only added to the presidential nominating process, now relying on primaries, caucuses, state conventions, and national nominating conventions (Northeastern