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R7yga TIL That according to the 12th amendment of the US Constitution, if the president and vice president candidates on the same ticket were from the same state, they could not get any electoral college votes from their home state.
wLbO6 TIL Washington set the two-term President tradition. He declined a 3rd term because "The line between Parties” had become “so clearly drawn” that politicians “regard neither truth nor decency; attacking every character without respect to persons who happen to differ from themselves in Politics."
wLMDJ Today I learned that John Adams wanted to celebrate Independence day on July Second with, "Pomp and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations"