Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner Chapter 37

Although on the surface, the conditions for running for state legislature in the United States are very loose, as long as they are at least 21 years old, have lived in the state for more than one year, have a certain education, and have a minimum knowledge of parliament, American citizens can run for state legislatures. (The requirements vary from state to state, but generally they are not high)

But in fact, those who are actually elected to parliament usually have various advantages that most citizens lack, such as coming from a high-class family, having a higher education, living in the local area for a long time, and having experience in running a business or practicing a lawyer, etc.

From a political point of view, if you want to become a state legislator, you generally have to be a member of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. Although the law does not prohibit citizens who do not belong to these two parties from running for state legislature, few people can actually succeed.

The election of state legislators is divided into two stages, the primary election and the general election. The task of the pre-selection was to select congressional candidates from various parties. The competition between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party was extremely fierce, but it didn't matter to Tangning, the Constitutional Federalist Party, because no one was competing with him at all.

The general election is of course the election of members from among the candidates of each party. Generally, there are two forms. One is that one constituency has one member, and those who obtain a simple majority are elected; the other is that there are multiple members of a constituency, and those who obtain a simple majority are elected. However, in this case, each party will generally send more 1 candidate is running because there is no limit to the number of seats each party can win.

For example, a party with the majority of the votes, although it only won 55% of the votes, may win 65% of the seats; while another party has won 45% of the votes, but only 35 seats, so this system has always been under fire.

However, to Tangning, these things were not important, because the Constitutional Federal Party had no seats, and even less votes.

"Tony, have you prepared a campaign slogan?" Philip asked Tangning casually, because he thought that Tangning, a guy who was just here for fun, wouldn't make any preparations at all. Maybe he didn't even know what a campaign slogan was. do not know......

But to his surprise, Tangning nodded and replied, "Yes! My campaign slogan is "Healing the Pain of War"!"

"The war you mean is the Mexican-American War?" Philip asked tentatively.

Tangning nodded and replied, "That's right!"

The U.S.-Mexico War was a war of crucial significance in the history of continental expansion of the United States and the history of the westward movement. It not only promoted the formation and development of the American economic power, but also aggravated the contradiction between industrial capital in the north and slavery in the south, becoming the precursor to the American Civil War. .

Although the war ended with a great victory for the United States, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidelgo was also one of the largest treaties ceding territory from a defeated country to a victorious country in the modern history of the world. Even the American general Grant admitted that "this war is one of the most unjust wars ever waged by a mighty nation against a weaker nation."

But in fact the American casualties were not small, so much so that Lincoln asked the President in Congress to explain, "the exact place where our citizens shed so much blood for the first time." Erke's ", "The President's war against Mexico is unnecessary and unconstitutional."

Although it has been nearly ten years since the war, the wounded and retired soldiers on the battlefield are still not properly accommodated and cared for. It is not that no one has noticed this ticket bank, but that most politicians do not like soldiers. Especially post-war soldiers.

They feel that these soldiers have too many problems and are not obedient. The most important thing is that they need too much money to appease them. Who would do a business with such a disproportionate amount of input and output?

In other words, someone like Tangning knew that she would not succeed, so she dared to write a false promise irresponsibly! And there is no need to provoke this trouble, such as the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, who are very sure of the success of the election, otherwise it will be troublesome if the promise is not fulfilled!

Hearing Tangning's thoughts, Philip nodded in approval, "Tony, you have a good idea. This is indeed a ticket base that has been neglected all the time, and it's just right for a rookie like you who has no pressure to fight for it!"

Tangning complained in her heart, "You really know how to talk. What is a newcomer without pressure? To put it bluntly, you can't be selected anyway, so you can just talk nonsense about someone who doesn't need to be responsible."

So two days later, Downing came to the Veterans Association in Louisiana with the two campaign assistants given to him by the Constitutional Federal Party.

As soon as he entered the door, the staff asked him, "Hello sir, what's the matter with you?"

Downing gave his assistant Mike a look. UU read www.uukanshu.com and then he introduced, "This is Mr. Downing, the candidate for state legislature of our Constitutional Federal Party. I want to visit Mr. Adams, the person in charge here."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll ask Mr. Adams for instructions." After speaking, the staff turned around and left, but Tangning, who had a keen ear, heard him walking and muttered, "When will New York have a new constitution? Federalist?"

This made Tangning very depressed but helpless, because compared with the Republicans and Democrats, the Federalist Party of the Constitution had no sense of existence...

A few minutes later, the staff came over to them and said, "Mr. Downing, Mr. Adams invites you to come to the office for a meeting."

Although Tangning felt that Adams did not come out to greet her, it was rude to let her go to the office, but the situation was better than others. After all, she came to seek help from others, so she had to follow the staff to Adams' office without saying anything.

Fortunately, Adams was more enthusiastic at this time. He stood up and extended his hand to greet him, "Hello, Mr. Tangning! Welcome to the Veterans Association!"

After chatting for a while, Adams cut to the chase and asked, "Mr. Downing, I heard that you have been elected as the candidate for state legislature of the Constitutional Federal Party this time?"

Tangning nodded and replied, "That's right, that's one of the reasons why I came to visit Mr. Adams this time. I hope to gain the support of your association! Because one of my campaign slogans this time is to improve the lives of veterans. state."

PS: Thanks to the book friend "Yue You Li Song" for your support! In addition, he pushed a new book "I'm Falling on the Moon", which feels like a path to Shen Teng's upcoming new movie "Walking on the Moon Alone".

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