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I wonder who originally named the XYZ Affair because before they came on the scene there was a person who told the envoys that they had to meet X, Y and Z. That person's code name in the report? W! So it could really have been the WXYZ Affair.

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Madison's "huge metamorphosis"? Not really. You know, when he was in the Continental Congress Robert Morris proposed a national bank. Madison was one of those leading the fight against it. It's not so much that Madison changed. The goalposts did. I think Adams also made a mistake post-election. At that time Jefferson came to him and asked him to say something to the Federalists to the effect that plainly the people meant him, Jefferson, to be president, and that Federalists should stop scheming to do otherwise. Adams, still the sitting president, took a narrow, legalistic view and refused to do anything. He failed to get that the election of the president was a plebiscite, something that even Aaron Burr did understand. That's why Burr did not go to DC and campaign. He knew that if he was seen to be deliberately overturning the intention of the people, he would be a lame duck president from the start. The best he could do was stay in New York, remain hands off, and hope that just maybe the Federalists would elect him anyway.

Folks, everyone needs to stop repeating that Jackson won the popular vote in 1824. In 1824, six states, including New York, by far the most populous state (also CT, DE, GA, LA, SC, VT) did not even use the popular vote yet. So that result is completely meaningless. Moreover, if you project out what the likely popular votes of those states were, he would have won the popular vote easily there. America's choice did become president in 1825 and the fact that people are even still to this day repeating expressions like "corrupt bargain" are an example of what's called the Mandela Effect, the eerie phenomenon in which people collectively misremember events and historical facts. This is similar to the way people think Ed McMahon would show up at doorsteps with huge checks - he never did.