GENTLEMEN:--Your letter of the 14th inst.., formally notifying me that I have been nominated by the convention you represent for the Presidency of the United States for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received. The nomination is gratefully accepted, as the resolutions of the convention, called the platform, are heartily approved...Thanking you for the kind and complimentary terms in which you have communicated the nomination and other proceedings of the convention, I subscribe myself,
Your obedient servant,
A. LINCOLN.
- Abraham Lincoln, Letter Accepting the Presidential Nomination, June 27, 1864
How did the nomination of Abraham Lincoln at the 1864 Republican Convention illustrate a representative democracy?
Responses
APolitical conventions took away the direct vote of the people for a candidate instead it placed power in the hands of representatives.
Political conventions took away the direct vote of the people for a candidate instead it placed power in the hands of representatives.
BPolitical conventions removed the power of choosing a presidential candidate from the electoral college into the direct hands of the people.
Political conventions removed the power of choosing a presidential candidate from the electoral college into the direct hands of the people.
CThe move toward political conventions to nominate presidential candidates in the 1800s aimed at placing more political power in the hands of citizens.
The move toward political conventions to nominate presidential candidates in the 1800s aimed at placing more political power in the hands of citizens.
DPolitical conventions place more power in the hands of the people in regards to choosing candidates by eliminating delegates and providing people a direct vote for nominees.