Jackson disregarded judicial decisions and public outcry, acting with executive authority that appeared unconstrained. An ...

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The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are ...

In US elections, the Democratic and Republican parties are frequently ... The solution can be found in political cartoons ...

The donkey first became linked to the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign in 1828 ... In the ...

When polls closed across all 28 US states (the country now has 50), Jackson was in the lead with 99 electoral votes, followed ...

In 1828, during his presidential campaign, Democratic leader Andrew Jackson's opponents referred to him as a 'jackass,' which ...

File Image/Pixabay Since the 19th century, the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant have been enduring symbols in ...

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

Elections are a complex mix of diverse laws, procedures, technology and exhaustive manual cross-checks. Contrary to what many believe, elections officials do not blindly accept the numbers that ...

The elephant and donkey were meant to be satirical depictions, popularised by an American political cartoonist.