The Anti: Masonic Party
The Anti: Masonic Party convened the first national convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 1830. They established the norm of the national convention so that the Presidential election could be constituted in a more democratic manner and in accordance with the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.
Further Explanation:
A National Convention in the United States refers to a Presidential nomination convention, in which all political parties put their candidate nominations for the upcoming Presidential elections. 1824 was the year of a toughly contested Presidential election when the candidature of the Georgian candidate William H. Crawford was not accepted by certain factions of Democratic:Republican Party. The opposition to the choice of a Presidential Candidate was avoided in 1831 when the Anti Masonic Party decided to put forward a single Presidential Candidature that would be agreeable to the whole party leadership. Soon, this became the established norm for other political parties who would put forward the nominations of their selected candidates. The national conventions also provided a platform for the parties to decide their ideological stances, course of action and activities that would be undertaken until up to the next Presidential election. This precedent set by the Anti Masonic Party made the Presidential elections more democratic, thereby removing unwanted influences of party oligarchies in the informal party caucus.
Learn more:
1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is most noted for?
https://brainly.com/question/240258
2. What happened to the nationalists after the civil war?
https://brainly.com/question/8739394
Answer Details:
Grade: High School
Subject: History
Chapter: The History of the American Constitution
Keywords:
Presidential nomination convention, Presidential candidature, ideological stances, democratic, party oligarchies.
