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I know John Tyler was the 10th president and was the first one to become president by death. He was the VEEP. I was about to type that I don't remember who died to make him president, but the slogan Tippeecanoe and Tyler too just gurgled up in my mind. Wasn't Tipeecanoe a nickname for guy -- he was a military officer and ran as the "hard cider candidate"? I still don't know the era, but this all sounds pretty early post-Jacksonian ... 1830s or so?
(I only know this because I picked John Tyler for a report I had to do on presidents in third grade. I wanted to go with one of the minor ones.)
William Henry Harrison was the president. He died 9 months into his term. He went swimming in the Potomac River and died of pneumonia I believe.
You keep a copy of the Constitution at the ready? How...............nice.
I don't know why, but I just feel sad for you for some reason.
I worked a temporary job as a sign changer (those signs out front with the block letters that have to be put up by hand) at a California school back in the 90's. As a condition of my employment I had to take the following oath, as do all state employees in California:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter."
I took the oath seriously. I have the online Constitution of the State of California bookmarked in my browser.
William Henry Harrison was the president. He died 9 months into his term. He went swimming in the Potomac River and died of pneumonia I believe.
WRONG! See, your rights might get violated. He gave a speech in the pouring rain and caught a cold which turned into pneumonia. He died a month later. I read that story as a child and thought it was so sad.
If he had gone swimming in the Potomac, he probably would have dissolved!
WRONG! See, your rights might get violated. He gave a speech in the pouring rain and caught a cold which turned into pneumonia. He died a month later. I read that story as a child and thought it was so sad.
If he had gone swimming in the Potomac, he probably would have dissolved!
Yeah, and if you don't know the answer, you're a bad American and you're responsible for every negative thing that's happening in the country.
Exactly. What hypocrites. Most of those same people don't even know who their congressman/woman is, much less how many amendments the constitution has!
Exactly. What hypocrites. Most of those same people don't even know who their congressman/woman is, much less how many amendments the constitution has!
Here is an unqualified statement if I ever heard one. Care to show me your study that produced this conclusion? Any statistics I can examine to be sure that "most" of those persons you are referring to don't know the name of their congessman/woman? I patiently await submission of your data.
Here is an unqualified statement if I ever heard one. Care to show me your study that produced this conclusion? Any statistics I can examine to be sure that "most" of those persons you are referring to don't know the name of their congessman/woman? I patiently await submission of your data.
Whatever! The same study that shows this country is going to $i&^ because people can't come up with the number of amendments in the constitution.
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Yeah, and if you don't know the answer, you're a bad American and you're responsible for every negative thing that's happening in the country.
